This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii the humbler folk "Quot villani? quot cotarii? quot servi? Qnot liberi homines? quot sochemanni? Quantum ibi quisque liber homo vel sochemannus habuit vel habet?" of all the questions which were propounded to the Cambridgeshire jurors there are probably none which are the subject of greater ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii the humbler folk "Quot villani? quot cotarii? quot servi? Qnot liberi homines? quot sochemanni? Quantum ibi quisque liber homo vel sochemannus habuit vel habet?" of all the questions which were propounded to the Cambridgeshire jurors there are probably none which are the subject of greater discussion at the present day than those which are given in the heading to this chapter. The distinctions between these five classes of humbler folk, though certainly well known to the jurors, have hitherto eluded research, and the last word on the subject has yet to be written. These five classes may roughly be classed together as the cultivating occupiers; not that some of those whom we have previously been considering were not actually engaged in the manual labours of cultivation. In all probability, many of those who were classed as the King's vavassours, the King's thegns, and the King's serjeants, were the actual cultivators of the land they occupied, or, at all events, superintended its cultivation. But in this chapter we have to consider the position of those who were engaged in agriculture, and nothing but agriculture. It would, however, be misleading to call them "the labouring classes." The landless farm labourer of the present day is the product of later ages, and is an anomaly in Domesday Book. But here it is absolutely necessary to connect the evidence of Domesday Book with that of the periods before and after the Conquest, and it will be most convenient to consider the evidence relating to these men under four heads--the evidence of the pre-Conquest documents; the evidence of Domesday Book for the two periods for which it gives information; and the post-Domesday evidence. I. pre-conquest documents In our discussion of the "
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Book. Octavo, 289 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt text. Boards have sunning to spine, mild edgewear and shelfwear, and bumping to corners. Textblock has light age toning and foxing to pages and on fore edge. 1369750. FP New Rockville Stock.
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