Note 178 — Chapter II · THE PEASANTRY

Since writing the above I have seen that the same view of the advantages of copyhold (the descendant of villein) tenure is taken by Dr. Hasbach, who quotes an eighteenth century writer to the effect that copyhold as compared with freehold land had the advantage of “the greater certainty of its title and the cheapness of its conveyance” (Hasbach, A History of the English Agricultural Labourer, pp. 72–73).