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The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

Note 91 — Chapter I · THE RURAL POPULATION

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Among the 742 customary tenants on the manors belonging to the Earl of Pembroke surveyed in 1568 there appears to be 7 nativi domini, i.e. villeins by blood, viz., 1 at Washerne (Wilts), 2 at Stooke Trister and Cucklington (Somerset), 4 at Chedeseye (Somerset), of whom one has been manumitted.

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