The English Village Community Examined in Its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common Or Open Field System of Husbandry: An Essay in Economic History

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Longmans, Green, 1905 - 464 Seiten
 

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Seite 343 - Agri pro numero cultorum ab universis in vices occupantur, quos mox inter se secundum dignationem partiuntur. Facilitatem partiendi camporum spatia praestant. Arva per annos mutant, et superest ager. Nee enim cum ubertate et amplitudine soli labore contendunt, ut pomaria conserant, et prata separent, et hortos rigent ; sola terrae seges imperatur.
Seite 72 - God. For there is no doubt that it is impossible to efface everything at once from their obdurate minds; because he, who endeavours to ascend to the highest place, rises by degrees or steps, and not by leaps.
Seite 72 - ... as that on the day of the dedication, or the nativities of the holy martyrs, whose relics are there deposited, they may build themselves huts of the boughs of trees, about those churches which have been turned to that use from temples, and celebrate the solemnity with religious feasting, and no more offer beasts to the devil...
Seite 246 - Britain is inhabited by those of whom they say that it is handed down by tradition that they were born in the island itself: the maritime portion by those who had passed over from the country of the Belgae for the purpose of plunder and making war; almost all of whom are called by the names of those states from which being sprung they went thither, and having waged war, continued there and began to cultivate the lands.
Seite viii - Yes, we arraign her ! but she, The weary Titan ! with deaf Ears, and labour-dimm'd eyes, Regarding neither to right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal ; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Well-nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate.
Seite 249 - collect the sheaves in great barns and thrash out the corn there, because they have so little sunshine, that our open thrashing-places would be of little use in that land of clouds and rain.
Seite 136 - If a gesithcund man owning land neglect the fyrd, let him pay cxx. shillings and forfeit his land.
Seite 220 - ... and other Irish exactions, •whereby they did spoil and impoverish the people, at their pleasure. And when their chieftains were dead their sons or next heirs did not succeed them, but their tanuti, who were elective, and purchased their elections by strong hand.
Seite 220 - And by the Irish custom of gavelkind the inferior tenancies were partable amongst all the males of the sept ; and after partition made, if any one of the sept had died his portion was not divided among his sons, but the chief of the sept made a new partition of all the lands belonging to that sept, and gave every one his part according to his antiquity.
Seite 133 - Let him who is over the district take care that he knows what the old land-customs are, and what are the customs of the people. Then follow the special services of the beekeeper, oxherd, cowherd, shepherd, goatherd, &c , upon which we need not dwell here ; and the document concludes with another declaration that the services vary according to the custom of each district.

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