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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... took part in the management of the common property and acknowledged common responsibility for the public good . The whole community ( as the population was small , an essential for such a condition ) had a common interest in the soil ...
... took part in the management of the common property and acknowledged common responsibility for the public good . The whole community ( as the population was small , an essential for such a condition ) had a common interest in the soil ...
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... took with them droves of horses and herds of cattle , which were to them both food and motion and means of barter . By its promise of advantage to their cattle ( which was their substance , their capital , their money ) , as much as ...
... took with them droves of horses and herds of cattle , which were to them both food and motion and means of barter . By its promise of advantage to their cattle ( which was their substance , their capital , their money ) , as much as ...
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... took thought for the things of itself . It is unlikely that at first they knew or practised any system of farming . Their knowledge of the management of land , of rotation of crops , of the value of manure , of the admeasurement of ...
... took thought for the things of itself . It is unlikely that at first they knew or practised any system of farming . Their knowledge of the management of land , of rotation of crops , of the value of manure , of the admeasurement of ...
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... took into his service or under his protection men connected with the group family by adoption or by marriage , and also unfree men to whom he would give his protection in return for services of all kinds . The entry of this last class ...
... took into his service or under his protection men connected with the group family by adoption or by marriage , and also unfree men to whom he would give his protection in return for services of all kinds . The entry of this last class ...
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... took place only on a death is thus described : " The can finny ( ceann finé ) , or chief of a sept , who was commonly the most ancient of the sept , made all the partitions at his discretion ; and after the birth of any tertenants who ...
... took place only on a death is thus described : " The can finny ( ceann finé ) , or chief of a sept , who was commonly the most ancient of the sept , made all the partitions at his discretion ; and after the birth of any tertenants who ...
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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...