Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Volume 6) - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1154099121 ISBN 13: 9781154099126

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE INQUISITION OF 1517. INCLOSURES AND EVICTIONS. Ed1ted From The Lansdowne MS. I. 153. By I. S. LEADAM, M.A. Part I. Introduction. Professor Ashley on 'The Character of Villein-tenure,' and its Relation to Inclosure--Inherent Improbabilities of Professor Ashley's Theory: (1) From the Yorkist Position; (2) From the Tudor Policy; (3) From Absence of Evidence--The Acts of 1488 and 1515 for Restraint of Inclosures--Limits of the Commission of 1517--The Returns of the Record Office and of the Lansdowne MS.--Illustrations--Areas embraced in Returns--Absence of Uniformity in Returns. Examples. Inclosures: (1) By Tenants; (2) By Landlords--Characteristics of the Returns for the Different Counties--Sympathetic Description of Evictions--Boldness and Impartiality of the Commissioners--The Commissioners call Attention to the Losses of Tenants by Inclosure--Legal Position of Persons concerned mentioned in Yorkshire, where Persons evicted clearly not Copyholders--Indications of Tenure in Herefordshire, Hants, and Norfolk. No Sign of Evictions of Copyholders--Inclosures of Demesne Lands by Farming Tenants, with and without Evictions--Inclosures by Lords with Evictions--Inclosures by Copyholders--What Class of Tenants were evicted? The Evidence supplied by the Herefordshire Returns--The Persons so described Tenants at Will at Common Law--The Gloucestershire Cases of Evictions of Copyholders--The Commissioners' View of the Duke of Buckingham's Proceedings--Report of the Surveyors of the Duke of Buckingham's Estates. His Expropriations of Freeholders--The Duke of Buckingham's Arbitrary Conduct a Cause of his Ruin--Corroborative Evidence derived from the Statutes that the Persons evicted were not Copyholders. Coke's Statements as to the Security of Copyholders in his Day--Profes...

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