Note 386 — Chapter I · THE NEW RURAL ECONOMY
Reading edition
Vinogradoff, The Growth of the Manor, note to chap. ii., Book III., p. 370, and his quotations from Maitland: “The villains of Bright Waltham ... constituted a community which held land, which was capable of receiving a grant of land, which could contract with the lord, which could make exchange with the lord.”