Note 706 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)
Reading edition
More, Utopia, p. 31 (Pitt Press edition): “Noblemen and gentlemen, yea, and certain abbotts, holy men no doubt ... leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all to pasture.” For a case of claiming a bondman, see Selden Society, Select Cases in the Court of Star Chamber, Carter v. The Abbot of Malmesbury. For conversion of copyholds to tenancies at will, Selden Society, Select Cases in the Court of Requests, Kent and other inhabitants of Abbot’s Ripton v. St. John. The change was alleged to have been made in 1471.