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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... Sheep and Goats , 193. Dogs and Hawks , 195 . PAGE 187 CHAPTER XVII . THE WASTE . TIMBER . THE BY- PRODUCTS . THE REGULATIONS OF THE WASTE 198 Timber , 198. Charcoal , 200. Fuel and Repairs , 201 . Minerals and other Matters , 202. The ...
... Sheep and Goats , 193. Dogs and Hawks , 195 . PAGE 187 CHAPTER XVII . THE WASTE . TIMBER . THE BY- PRODUCTS . THE REGULATIONS OF THE WASTE 198 Timber , 198. Charcoal , 200. Fuel and Repairs , 201 . Minerals and other Matters , 202. The ...
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... as an exclusively Irish habit , " in many things repugning both to God's laws and man's . " Family Responsibility . " Homicide is atoned for by a fixed number of cattle or sheep , and accepted by 30 FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY.
... as an exclusively Irish habit , " in many things repugning both to God's laws and man's . " Family Responsibility . " Homicide is atoned for by a fixed number of cattle or sheep , and accepted by 30 FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY.
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... sheep , and accepted by the whole family " -universa domus . This custom was universal over the Islands up to the twelfth century , and for long after in all parts except in England and South - Eastern Scotland . - Marriage . They are ...
... sheep , and accepted by the whole family " -universa domus . This custom was universal over the Islands up to the twelfth century , and for long after in all parts except in England and South - Eastern Scotland . - Marriage . They are ...
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... sheep and seven acres sown on his gyrde landes ; when death befalls him let the lord take what is left . " Formerly , says the Rent Roll of Kelso , 10 each husbandman of Reveden took with his land Stuht , namely , two oxen , a horse ...
... sheep and seven acres sown on his gyrde landes ; when death befalls him let the lord take what is left . " Formerly , says the Rent Roll of Kelso , 10 each husbandman of Reveden took with his land Stuht , namely , two oxen , a horse ...
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... sheep , oxen , and the like . On a death there is division and redivision of the land , as among the early Irish and Welsh . The Montenegrins , he says , count pure kinship down to the seventh degree , all the mem- bers belonging to one ...
... sheep , oxen , and the like . On a death there is division and redivision of the land , as among the early Irish and Welsh . The Montenegrins , he says , count pure kinship down to the seventh degree , all the mem- bers belonging to one ...
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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...