INDEX.
Reading edition
Agreement as the origin of free tenure, 335;
between lord and village, 359.
Akerman, 147.
Amercement, 163.
Ancient conquest, 453.
Ancient demesne, definition, 89, 90;
privileges, 92;
tenantry, 114;
Saxon origin, 123, 136;
courts, 379.
Ancient freehold, 344, 352.
Anelipeman, 213.
Approvement, 273.
Assarts, 332.
Assessment, 244.
Assisa terra, 333.
Aston and Cote, Oxon, 392, 450.
Astrier, 56.
Auxilium, 293.
Averagium, 285, 286, 309.
Aver-earth, 280.
Aver-land, 257.
Ayllington (Elton), Hunts, 337, 460.
Bailiff, 318.
Balk, 232.
Barlick-silver, 291.
Beadle, 318.
Ben-earth, 281.
Birth, influence on status, 59.
Blackstone, view of English history, 7;
on copyholds, 80;
on ancient demesne tenure, 112.
Board-lands, 314.
Bockyng, Essex, 315.
Bondus, 145.
Boonwork, 174.
Borda, 256.
Bordarius, 145, 149.
Borough English, 82, 157, 185.
Bosing-silver, 291.
Bovati, 238.
Bracton, on villainage, 47;
on status, 60;
on convention between villain and lord, 71;
on waynage, 74;
on villain tenure and villain services, 77;
on villain socage, 89, 115, 121;
on rights of common, 269.
Braseum, 289.
Britton, on prescription, 63;
on the prohibition against devising villains, 76;
on privileged villainage, 109.
Butta, 232.
Campus, 228.
Carriage duties, 285.
Carta, 199, 452.
Carucarius, 147.
Censuarius, 186.
Ceorls, Palgrave on, 14;
connexion with villains, 135;
history of the term, 149.
Chevagium, 157.
Churchscot, 295.
Common, of pasture, 263;
appendant and appurtenant, 265;
intrinsec and forinsec, 270;
of wood, 275.
Communal liability, 357.
Communitas villanorum, 359.
Commutation, 179, 307.
Conquest, Norman, 123, 130, 133, 135
Conquest, Saxon, Palgrave on, 13;
Kemble on, 18;
Freeman on, 22;
Seebohm on, 34.
Conveyancing, 216, 371.
Copyhold, 80, 115, 216, 310.
Cornage, 295.
Cornbote, 289.
Costeseye, Norfolk, 435.
Cotland, 256.
Cottarius, cotsetle, cottagiarius, 148.
Court Baron, 365.
Court leet, 362.
Court of ancient demesne, 378.
Court roll, 173, 374.
Criminal law, 64.
Curia, plena curia, 375, 377.
Custom, 172, 174, 181, 213, 297.
Custumarius, consuetudinarius, 146, 170.
Day-work, 288.
Defence, 260.
Demesne, 223, 313;
free tenements carved out of it, 327;
its development, 406.
Denerata, 257.
Dialogus de Scaccario, on villainage, 44;
on Englishry, 64;
on the Conquest, 121, 122.
Domesday Survey of Kent, 205;
on classes, 209.
Donum, 293.
Election of manorial officers, 355.
Elton, C.I., on ancient demesne tenure, 112;
on shifting ownership of arable, 236.
Ely Surveys, 441.
Emphyteusis, 333.
Enfranchisement, by feoffment, 70;
modes of manumission, 86;
by convention, 183;
as gradual emancipation, 184, 214.
Essartum, 332.
Exemption from labour, 296, 322.
Extraneus, 142.
Fald-silver, 291.
Farm, feorm, 301, 459.
Fastnyng-seed, 282.
Fealty, 164, 454.
Feoffment, 347, 455.
Ferdel, 256.
Ferlingsetus, 148.
Festuca, 372.
Feudalism, Kemble on, 20;
influence on villainage, 131;
oppression, 204.
Field systems, 224.
Filstnerthe, Filsingerthe, 282.
Firmarius, 305.
Fish-silver, 291.
Fleta on the hide, 241.
Fleyland, 170.
Foddercorn, 288.
Food-rents, 304.
Forinsecus, 142.
Forland, 332.
Frank pledge, villains in, 66, 418;
and leet, 363.
Free bench, 160.
Freeman, Edw., 22.
French Revolution, 10.
Fustel de Coulanges, 17, 32.
Gafol, 184, 187.
Gafol-earth, 280.
Gathercorn, 289.
Gavelkind, 207.
Gavelman, 187.
Gavelseed, 288.
Gebur, 145.
Geneat, 145.
Gersumarius, 147.
Gild, 293.
Glanville, on status, 59;
on manumission, 87.
Gneist, R., 24.
Godlesebene, 282.
Gomme, on early folk-mots, 367.
Gora, 231.
Grass-earth, 280.
Hale, Archdeacon, on the farm system, 305.
Halimote, 364, 370.
Hallam, his work on the Middle Ages, 11;
on villainage, 48.
Hand-dainae, 288.
Havering atte Bower, Essex, 108, 436.
Headland, 232.
Heriot, 159.
Hidage, 294.
Hide, 239, 241, 244;
Kemble on, 19.
Hidarius, 147.
Hitchin, Herts, 394.
Holding, 238, 241, 249, 263, 300;
origin, 401.
Homagium, 455.
Hundred, 67, 192, 445.
Hundredarius, 188, 194, 441, 450.
Hundred Rolls, on merchet, 154;
on free tenements, 336.
Huntenegeld, 292.
Husfelds, 314.
Inheritance, 246.
Inhoc, 226.
Inland, 328.
Intermixture of strips, 234, 254, 317.
Jugum, 248, 309.
Juratores curiae, 376.
Kemble, 18.
Kentish custom, 205, 248.
King's Ripton, Hunts, 93, 106, 110, 383.
Labourers, hired, 321.
Lammas-meadow, 260.
Landchere, 290.
Landgafol, 292.
Landsettus, 146.
Leases, of demesne land, 329;
for life and term of years, 330.
Legal theory, 44, 127.
Lentenearth, 282.
Levingman, 213.
Liberaciones, liberaturae, 176, 322.
Liber homo, 140;
as suitor of halimote, 389.
Libere tenens, 140, 169, 178, 311;
customary freeholder, 220, 456;
as overseer of labour, 368, 407;
subjected to the manorial arrangement, 325;
forinsecus, 327;
as suitor of halimote, 386.
Linch, 232.
Littleton, on villains regardant and in gross, 49.
Lodland, 257.
Lord, origin of his rights, 151;
amercements, 163;
control over villain land, will and pleasure, 212, 297;
as owner of the waste, 272;
equity, 384;
growth of his power, 404.
Lundinarium, 256.
Lurard, 319.
Maine, Sir Henry, 28.
Maitland, F.W., on John Fitz Geoffrey's case, 98;
on hundred and county courts, 189, 192;
on the leet, 362;
on the division of manorial courts, 364;
on manorial presentments, 371;
on court of honor, 390;
on the manor, 395.
Mal, 184, 187.
Malt-silver, 291.
Manor, Blackstone's theory, 8, 9;
influence on status, 57, 61, 85;
general organisation, 223;
husbandry, 316;
in relation to the township, 394;
its elements, 405.
Manuoperationes, 287.
Mark, 19.
Marriage, 62, 139.
Martin of Bertenover v. John Montacute, 78.
Maurer, G.F. von, 26.
Maurer, Konrad, 21.
Meadows, 259.
Mederipe, 283.
Men of Halvergate v. Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk, 431.
Men of King's Ripton v. Abbot of Ramsey, 110, 425.
Men of Tavistock v. Henry of Tracy, 119.
Men of Wycle v. Mauger le Vavasseur, 102, 111.
Merchet, 82, 153, 202.
Messarius, messor, 319.
Ministeriales, 319, 323, 406.
Mirror of justice, 415.
Molland, 183.
Molmen, 183.
Mondayland, 256.
Monopolies, manorial, 163.
Monstraverunt, writ of, 101, 104, 108, 110, 116.
Nasse, E., 26.
Nativus, 45, 142, 440.
Neat, niet, 144.
Ne injuste vexes, writ of, 420.
Nook, 256.
Note-book of Bracton, on conventions of lord with villain, 73;
on Martin of Bestenover's case, 79;
on manumission, 88;
on the Tavistock case, 119.
Nummata, 257.
Oath of fealty, 164.
Open field systems, 225, 237;
Nasse on, 27;
Seebohm on, 231;
origin, 399.
Operarius, 146.
Palgrave, Sir Francis, 12.
Pannage, 291.
Parvum breve de recto, 94, 100.
Pasture, 261.
Pedigree of villains, 440.
Pell, O., on acrewara, 242.
Penyearth, 282.
Petitions to the King, 102.
Ploughing work, 278.
Plough team, 238, 252.
Police, in relation to villainage, 66, 139.
Pollock, Sir Frederic, on conventions with villains, 72.
Precariae, 281, 284, 308.
Prepositus, 318.
Prescription, 63.
Presentments in the halimote, 368.
Prior of Hospitalers v. Ralph Crips and Thomas Barentyn, 54, 412.
Prior of Ripley v. Thomas Fitz-Adam, 83.
Prohibition against selling animals, 156.
Quare ejecit infra terminum, writ of, 330.
Quit-rent, 291.
Quo jure, writ of, 265, 270.
Radacre, 282.
Reaping work, 283.
Recognition, 348.
Reeveship, 157.
Regular arrangement, of villain holdings, 334, 345;
of free holdings, 337;
of socmen's holdings, 349.
Relief, 162.
Remuneration of servants, 321.
Rent, 181, 188, 215;
trifling, 290;
of free tenants, 342.
Revision of procedure, 99.
Rofliesland, 334.
Roger Fitz William v. Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, 422.
Rogers, J. Thorold, on legal theory, 44;
on manorial documents, 138.
Roman influence, Palgrave's view, 14;
French scholars, 16;
Seebohm, 33.
Rotation of crops, 230.
Royal jurisdiction, 219.
Scrutton, T.E., 266.
Scutage, 294.
Scythepenny, 291.
Seebohm, F., 32.
Segheho, Beds, 233, 457.
Self-government, communal, 355, 361.
Selio, 231.
Seneschal, 318.
Sequela, 300.
Serfdom, 43, 152.
Serland, 257.
Servientes, 320.
Services, implying villainage, 82;
uncertain, 83;
certain on ancient demesne, 110;
labour, 167, 215, 305.
Servus, 45, 141.
Shareholding, 340, 347.
Sixteen of Aston and Cote, 393.
Slavery, 43, 47.
Socagium ad placitum, 334.
Sockemanemot, 365.
Soke, 391.
Socmen, free, 196, 204, 456;
on ancient demesne, 113, 197, 456;
villain, 89, 91, 199;
nature of tenure, 113, 116.
Solanda, 255.
Status, 83.
Statute of labourers, 54, 412.
Statute of Merton, 273.
Statute of Westminster II, 273, 274.
Steward, 318, 354.
Stoneleigh Abbey, 91, 93, 105, 116, 381, 426.
Stubbs, W., 23.
Suitors of halimote, 370;
in ancient demesne court, 380;
free, 386.
Sulung, 247.
Surrender and admittance, 371, 455.
Symon of Paris v. H. bailiff of Sir R. Tonny, 411.
Tallage, 163.
Tenmanland, tunmanland, 255.
Teutonic influence, Palgrave on, 13;
German scholars, 17;
Kemble, 19;
Freeman, 22;
Stubbs, 23;
Gneist, 24.
Township, 394.
Turnbedellus, 329.
Tywe, 282.
Undersette, 213.
Unlawenearth, 282.
Vagiator, 319.
Village community, Nasse on, 27;
Maine, 28;
Seebohm, 33;
acting in the interest of the lord, 355;
acting independently of the lord, 357;
as a farmer, 360;
its relation to the manor, 404.
Villain, sold, 151;
opposed to serf, 419;
civil disabilities, 67, 159,166;
free as to third persons, 68;
convention with the lord, 70, 182;
waynage, 74, 420;
not to be devised, 76;
claimed by kinship, 84, 417;
on ancient demesne, 114;
in manorial documents, 140, 150.
Villainage, definitions, 44;
exception of, 46;
in gross and regardant, 48, 411, 413.
Villain tenure, 77, 165;
free man holding in villainage, 80, 81, 143;
held by labour services, 167.
Virga, 173, 372.
Virgata, virgatarius, 148, 238.
Walter of Henley, on field systems, 225;
on the hide, 241.
Wara, 242.
Ward-penny, 291.
Waynage, 74, 420.
Week-work, 280.
William Fitz Henry v. Bartholomew Fitz Eustace, 80.
William Fitz Robert v. John Cheltewynd, 421.
William Taylor v. Roger of Sufford, 73.
Wista, 255.
Wood-penny, 291.
Workman, 186.
Wye, Kent, 309.
Yerdling, 148.
York Powell, F., on manumission, 87.