This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...while the Commissioners of 1535 confined themselves to the 'several' pastures. of arable to pasture. 1 V. E. iii. 276. Among the pieces of pasture are mentioned: Brode felde, 2 os. od., Boycote felde 1 3. 4, Bankamushylle 2 or. od. In the Exch. Augm. O. M. b. 400, 352, the arable land consists of three pieces: ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...while the Commissioners of 1535 confined themselves to the 'several' pastures. of arable to pasture. 1 V. E. iii. 276. Among the pieces of pasture are mentioned: Brode felde, 2 os. od., Boycote felde 1 3. 4, Bankamushylle 2 or. od. In the Exch. Augm. O. M. b. 400, 352, the arable land consists of three pieces: Banamyshyll 36 a., Braddefelde 44 a., Boycotefilde 33 a. In the Exch. Augm. O. M. b. 398, 70, the pasture of the monastery of Wroxall is surveyed. 257 acres are divided into nine allotments; eight allotments are called' clausurae'. The commons, therefore, are not taken into consideration at all, although there was a considerable extent of them. Among the monastic inventories in Exch. Treas. Receipt, v. 154 the Wroxall inventory is also preserved. It has an entry: 'Comons and wast 200 a.' Nevertheless, in spite of all these conjectural reservations, The monks we have before us an economic fact of great importance, agrarian Arable land occupies a very considerable part of the area revolution, that the monks kept in their own hands; it was very little, if at all, less than the area of the 'several' pastures. As agriculturists the monks carried on a large, or at any rate a fair-sized business. Now if the conversion of arable land into pasture had become general under the first two Tudors, then in these thriving monastery farms it ought to be in much greater evidence than in the small homesteads of the peasants, who tilled the land for their own subsistence and were fettered on all sides by communal regulations. The monasteries had also reasons of their own for giving up corn-growing and taking to grazing; or else for leaving the demesne to a farmer. The Dissolution was not an entirely unexpected event for the monks. Particular diss...
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Add this copy of Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History (Volume 5) to cart. $29.60, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1916 by Oxford Clarendon Press.
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Volume 5. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN:
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Ex-library copy with Brundage's signature on front paste-down, bookplate, covers sunned a bit, but internally very good clean with sound binding without dust jacket. From the library of noted medievalist James A. Brundage.
