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A.L. Irel acres agriculture alien Anglo-Irish arable land Ardri authority barons Brehon law Brittany called cattle causes century Charles of Blois chief church claim commerce common land communal society Connaught corn court Crown cultivation custom customary daughter decay Dermot Earl Edward enclosures England English king farming fencing feudal force forest France freemen Galloway gavelkind give group family Henry Henry II Highlands individual influence interest Ireland Irish islands Isles James Joan John John of Montfort king of Norway king's kinship labour lord manor manorial married mercenaries military neighbours Norman Norsemen Norway odal Orkneys ownership pasturage Philip plantation plough political possession regulations rent result Roman rulers says Scotland Scots Scottish sept sheep social soil Somerled Tacitus tenants tenure timber trade tribal tribe Ulster unfree Wales waste Welsh West Western wild William 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 ou : No occupation ; all men idle, all, — And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
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 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 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 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...
Page 279 - Without the substitution of separate occupation for the ancient system of common cultivation, this agricultural progress was impossible. But in carrying out the necessary changes, rural society was convulsed, and its general conditions revolutionised. The divorce of a peasantry from the soil, and the extinction of commoners, open field farmers, and eventually of small freeholders, were the heavy price which the nation ultimately paid for the supply of bread and meat to its manufacturing population.
Page 391 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 154 - ... strong hand and not by descent ; but all the inferior tenancies were partible between the males in gavelkind. " Yet the estate which the lord had in the chiefry or which the inferior tenants had in gavelkind was not an estate of inheritance, but a temporary or transitory possession. For as the next...
Page 11 - The truth is, gentlemen, a statesman is the creature of his age, the child of circumstances, the creation of his times. A statesman is essentially a practical character; and when he is called upon to take office, he is not to inquire what his opinions might or might not have been upon this or. that subject; he is only to ascertain the needful and the beneficial, and the most feasible measures are to be carried on.