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Villainage in England

Note 715 — Chapter IV

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A fourth class would be composed of tenements belonging to people personally strange to the manor. Such 'forinsec' tenants were often high and mighty persons who had nothing to do with the agrarian arrangements of the place. I do not speak of this class, because its position is evidently an artificial one and of no importance for the internal organisation of the manor, though interesting from the legal point of view.

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