The Foundations of Society and the Land: A Review of the Social Systems of the Middle Ages in Britain, Their Growth and Their Decay: with a Special Reference to Land User, Supplemented by Some Observations on the Connection with Modern Conditions |
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... living . My object is to delve into the so to speak antediluvian strata , to discuss their relation to the past and to the present , to contrast them with the transition feudal stage , and to point out that they are not English ...
... living . My object is to delve into the so to speak antediluvian strata , to discuss their relation to the past and to the present , to contrast them with the transition feudal stage , and to point out that they are not English ...
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... living , and it assuredly will rest first on kinship of the members . But as the society grows and wars , and by war learns to estimate its aims at a true value , there comes to it as a social aim more than the bare conception of ...
... living , and it assuredly will rest first on kinship of the members . But as the society grows and wars , and by war learns to estimate its aims at a true value , there comes to it as a social aim more than the bare conception of ...
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... living in his youth in France , not even half a Norman , and not at all an Englishman , Henry could have hoped for nothing but disaster unless he had been able to play off the solid South of France and its great naval power against the ...
... living in his youth in France , not even half a Norman , and not at all an Englishman , Henry could have hoped for nothing but disaster unless he had been able to play off the solid South of France and its great naval power against the ...
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... living under tribal conditions in early times . It is singularly instructive as bearing on the con- ditions of many parts of the British Islands in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . In some particulars the general description given ...
... living under tribal conditions in early times . It is singularly instructive as bearing on the con- ditions of many parts of the British Islands in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . In some particulars the general description given ...
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... living a purely pastoral life , dependent for existence on stock- raising and hunting . Land as such has no value as the basis of their life ; they live in a country covered with forests and widely extended marshes ; land is not the ...
... living a purely pastoral life , dependent for existence on stock- raising and hunting . Land as such has no value as the basis of their life ; they live in a country covered with forests and widely extended marshes ; land is not the ...
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A.L. Irel acres agriculture alienation Anglo-Irish Anglo-Scot animals arable cultivation arable land Ardri authority barons beasts Brehon Brehon law Brittany called cattle cause century Charles of Blois chief Church claim commerce common lands common pasture communal society corn court crops Crown custom customary daughter deer Dermot Earl Edward enclosures England farming fencing feudal force fosterage France freeman gavelkind give group family Henry hunting individual influence instance interest Ireland Irish Islands Isles James John John of Montfort king's kinship labour lord manor manorial married military Norman Norsemen Norway odal Orkneys owner ownership pasturage plantation plough political possession regulations rent result Roman says Scotland Scots Scottish sept sheep social soil Somerled Tacitus tenants tenure timber trade tribal tribe tribesman Ulster unfree villein Wales waste Welsh Welsh laws West Western Highlands wild William the Lion wood
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Page 423 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 11 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and...
Page 390 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 423 - Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty. And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty ; — Seb.
Page 404 - Wherein it is a great wonder to see the odds which is between the zeal of popish priests and the ministers of the Gospel. For they spare not to come out of Spain, from Rome, and from Rheims, by long toil and dangerous travelling, hither, where they know peril of death awaiteth them, and no reward or riches is to be found, only to draw the people into the Church of Rome.
Page 423 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 422 - A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
Page 253 - ... by your High Court of Parliament. They make " us believe, that by virtue of your Highness all our former " writings are void, and of no effect : and that if we will " not take new leases of them, we must then forthwith " avoid the grounds, as having therein no interest.
Page 390 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 275 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had...