Note 736 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)

Selden Society, Select Cases in the Court of Requests, Customarye Tenants of Bradford v. Fraunceys: “The seyd defendant seythe that the said bill of complaint ... is mater ... determinable at the comen land and not in this honourable court, whereunto he prayeth to be remitted.” Also Gairdner, L. & P. Henry VIII., i., 334, Earl of Derby to Cromwell; and Leadam, E. H. R., vol. viii. pp. 684–696. For attacks on Wolsey’s land policy see Herbert, History of King Henry VIII., pp. 297–298 (ed. of 1672): “Also the said Cardinal hath examined divers and many matters in the Chancery, after judgment thereof given at the Common Law, in subversion of your laws, and made some persons restore again to the other party condemned that they had in execution by virtue of the judgment in the Common Law.”