Note 581 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE
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Selden Society, Select Cases in the Court of Requests (Leadam). Customary tenants of Bradford v. Francis: “The said stuard called ... the ... tenants of the manor to be sworn to enquire as they ought to doo, the which to do ... the said tenants ... obstinately and sturdily then and there refused, and said that unless the said defendent ... wold grante them forthwith and immediatelye that they should have and enjoy the commodity of the said three matters ... that they, nor any of them, wolde be sworn at that Court, but wolde depart.”