wunder · LibrarySECTION IV. The Manor
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1. Extent of the manor of Havering, 1306-7 56
2. Extracts from the Court Rolls of the manor of Bradford, 1349-58 65
3. Deed illustrating the distribution of strips, 1397 76
4. Regulation of the common fields of Wimeswould, c. 1425 76
5. Lease of a manor to the tenants, 1279 79
6. Grant of a manor to the customary tenants at fee farm, ante 1272 81
7. Lease of manorial holdings, 1332 82
8. An agreement between lord and tenants, 1386 84
9. Complaints against a reeve, 1278 84
10. An eviction from copyhold land, temp. Henry IV.-Henry VI 85
11. Statute of Merton, 1235-6 87
12. An enclosure allowed, 1236-7 88
13. An enclosure disallowed, 1236-7 89
14. A villein on ancient demesne dismissed to his lord's court, 1224 89
15. Claim to be on ancient demesne defeated, 1237-8 90
16. The little writ of right, 1390 91
17. Villeinage established, 1225 92
18. Freedom and freehold established, 1236-7 93
19. A villein pleads villeinage on one occasion and denies it on another, 1220 93
20. An assize allowed to a villein, 1225 95
21. A freeman holding in villeinage, 1228 96
22. Land held by charter recovered from the lord, 1227 97
23. The manumission of a villein, 1334 97
24. Grant of a bondman, 1358 98
25. Imprisonment of a gentleman claimed as a bondman, 1447 98
26. Claim to a villein, temp. Henry IV-Henry VI 100
27. The effect of the Black Death, 1350 102
28. Accounts of the Iron Works of South Frith before and after the Black Death, 1345-50 103
29. The Peasants' Revolt, 1381 105
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