The early history of Leighton Buzzard and its neighbourhood; the first of a ser. of lectsYoung, 1850 - 72 pages |
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abbess of Fontevrault Albini ancestors Anglo-Saxon Aspley assart battle of Hastings Battlesden Bedford bishop of Lincoln British Britons called Domesday Book carrucate church copy cultivation demesne land diocese dispossess docu document called Domesday Domesday survey early history Edward the Confessor eighty-two villeins England English Engravings family of Bosard forest granted half-manor of Leighton Heath Henry Henry II HISTORY OF LEIGHTON hundred swine immediate neighbourhood inhabitants interest invaded Ivinghoe jurisdiction King Edward King John King's Wood Leigh Leighton Buzzard little degree lord Loudon's Lygeanburgh manor of Leighton Mary and Florence ment Mentmore mills name of Leighton neatly bound Norman Conquest parish possession present respecting the early river Lea Romans have left royal family Saxon nobility Saxon period shire simply Leighton situated sixpence strong and neatly survey was compiled tenant Totternhoe venerable document called villeinage vols Watling Street whole manor whole of Bedfordshire William the Conqueror Woburn
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Page 17 - Confessor ; the present possessor ; how many hides were in the manor ; how many ploughs were in demesne ; how many homagers ; how many villeins ; how many cottars ; how many...
Page 24 - In many places also a fine was payable to the lord, if the villein presumed to marry his daughter to any one without leave from the lord : and, by the common law, the lord might also bring an action against the husband for damages in thus purloining his property.
Page 23 - They could not leave their lord without his permission, but if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like beasts or other chattels. They held indeed small portions of land by way of sustaining themselves and families ; but it was at the mere will of the lord, who might dispossess them whenever he pleased...
Page 26 - For though in general they are still said to hold their estates at the will of the lord, yet it is such a will as is agreeable to the custom of the manor ; which customs are...
Page 24 - A villein could acquire no property either in land or goods : but, if he purchased either, the Lord might enter upon them, oust the villein, and seize them to his own use, unless he contrived to dispose of them again before the Lord had seized them ; for the Lord had then lost his opportunity.
Page 26 - And as such tenants had nothing to show for their estates but these customs and admissions in pursuance of them, entered on these rolls, or the copies of such entries witnessed by the steward, they now began to be called tenants by copy of court roll, and their tenure itself a copyhold.
Page 4 - HAVE the honour to lay before you such information as I have been able to obtain relative to the shipment of slaves, or engag6s, from the Mozambique Channel.
Page 15 - ... leave no doubt that the great vassals of the crown were absolute proprietors, and that all their subvassals had the same right of holding in perpetuity. The estate, however, reverted to the crown if the race of the original feoffee became extinct, and in cases, also, of felony and treason. When Alain of Bretagne, who commanded the rear of the army at the battle of Hastings, and who had received...
Page 21 - Mills antiently belonged to Lords of Manors ; and the tenants were permitted to grind only at the Lord's Mill. This circumstance sufficiently accounts not only for the great number of Mills noticed in the Survey as objects of profit to the landholder, but for the large sums which they are continually stated to yield. Sometimes even the site of a Mill is mentioned, which had formerly existed, evidently as a valuable capability. In one instance,