Volume 1
History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton.
- Edward Baines
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![II. Of ma- nors. 70 The Ptstorp of the collateral, ultra fratres patruelles ;* but in a short time after it did extend to the next degree.—Jo. Faber saith, Ducatus, Countys, Baronys, &c. were made perpetual hereditary, and nobles thereupon began to take themselves syrnames from ther chief denomination of ther fees. “ First Institutions of Manors—1. In the first place (the Lord) designed a fitting place for his own habitation, and to it was a messuage fit wheriores ad familiam suam alendam conscripsit fundos qui hodie terre dominice, cald demaine lands. «<2, Another part he bestowed clientibus quot alere videatur milites ob subsidium in bello, such portions are cald feoda militaria Kts’ fees, but if any portion was not sufficient of itself, ad militem alendum,{ yet according to its quantity, partem pactam contribuit,{ sc. one half, one third, a fourth pt, a 100 pt, vel tantillo levior esset sumptus Domini militaris, (or so much less as the Lord’s military charges were the lighter.) “ 3, Tertid partem colonis—who were called socmanni—elocat decernitque ut pro tenementorum suorum ratione frumenti vel vestis aliquid, jucta Tacitum, aut obsonit aliorumque necessariorum reddant faciantque,||—and after he placed and sorteth out a third part to husbandmen, who are called socmanni, that proportionably to their tenements they should render, or caus something of fruit or garments and victuals, and other necessaries (according to Tacitus) et preterea ad edes Domini et sua pradia, as rustic and servile labours. They shal till the Lord’s ground, plow, sow, reap, cut his corn and hay, thrash, ditch, and hedg, et greges et indicta singula exe- quantur. “4, Neither in the Interim were they forgetful of God, for they dedicated a place for the church and priest, ut concilia volunt Agricolis—pauperibus suis qui familie navant opera latam fundi portionem cedit quo eorum victus nutriantur animalia solent nominare.4] “ This distribution of land, which since ut visu e domino beneficentia efus etiam parwit voluntati, and was governed by such laws as the lord imposed, ut de Germanis Tacitus Agricolis suis jus—huic jurisdictiont pretorium, (as Tacitus says, in his * Beyond brother’s cousins on the fathers’ side. + In no county in England do the names of the lands so much correspond with the surnames of their owners, as in Lancashire. } To support a knight. § He finished the portion agreed upon. || Towards their maintenance and cultivation. 1 Asthe councils will. To their poor husbandmen, who industriously laboured for their families, they granted a broad portion of ground (common) by which they might furnish food for themselves and cattle.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33521682_0001_0104.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
