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The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

Note 723 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)

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For the St. Johns, see pp. 362 and 380. For Sir John Yorke, pp. 285 and 381, and Selden Society, Court of Requests, Inhabitants of Whitby v. Yorke, 1553: “Be yt remembred that the cause brought before the Queen’s Counsaill in her Majestie’s Court of Requests.... Ys now ordered by the saide Councill by thagreement of the saide Syr John who hathe promised that the saide parties aforenamed, and every one of them, shall have and quietly eujoye theyr tenements and holdings during the yeres and termes in theyr leases and copies yet enduring, paying theyr Rentes and ffermes accustomed.” For Lloyd and the tenants of Hewlington in Denbighshire, see pp. 302–303.

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