Note 434 — Chapter II · THE REACTION OF THE AGRARIAN CHANGES ON THE PEASANTRY
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Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying: “And as for that manner of common, me seemeth the Lord may improve himself of their waste grounds, leaving their own tenants sufficient common, having no regard to the tenants of the other lordship. But as far as all errable lands, meadows, leises, and pastures, the lordes may improve themselves by course of the common law, for the statute speaketh nothing but of waste grounds.”