| John Britton - Wiltshire (England) - 1801 - 358 pages
...part of this county was formerly, and at no very remote period, in the hands of great proprietors *. Almost every manor had its resident lord, who held...rest by copy or lease, to under-tenants, usually for three lives, renewable. A state of commonage, and particularly of open common fields, was peculiarly... | |
| Social sciences - 1904 - 382 pages
...greater part of this county was formerly, and at no very remote period, possessed by large proprietors. Almost every manor had its resident lord, who held...renewable. A state of commonage, and particularly of open common field, was peculiarly favorable to this tenure. Enclosures naturally tend to its extinction.... | |
| Henry Charles Taylor - Agriculture - 1904 - 74 pages
...greater part of this county was formerly, and at no very remote period, possessed by large proprietors. Almost every manor had its resident lord, who held...renewable. A state of commonage, and particularly of open common field, was peculiarly favorable to this tenure. Enclosures naturally tend to its extinction.... | |
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