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Early English Woodland and Waste

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

H. Neilson
H. Neilson
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Mount Holyoke College
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Much labor has been spent upon the history of the cultivated and occupied lands of the medieval English village and the social life of its inhabitants, and as a result a fairly clear framework has been constructed into which alterations and additions may be fitted where necessary. This statement is not true of the great background of all early village life, of the activities concerned with the waste or unoccupied land lying outside fields and even village bounds, and either lying idle, or else used for pasture, estovers, and hunting. Modern students have been negligent of this side of the medieval countryside, being more engaged with the human interests of the village; and little allowance has been made for changes and developments occurring within decades or even centuries. The great history of common rights, an extremely important subject, has yet to be written. This paper has a few suggestions to make which might sometime be useful in a study of a very large field.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , May 1942 , pp. 54 - 62
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1942

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References

1 See especially Domesday Book, i, 16b, and compare ibid., 12, 14b, 18 passim, the descriptions of these counties.

2 Neilson, N., Customary Rents, Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, ii, 68, 75, 82,123Google Scholar.

3 Domesday Book, i, 179.

4 Domesday Book and Beyond, 369 et seq.

5 Compare Gras, Evolution of the English Cornmarket, for suggestive parallels. Professor Power's Ford Lectures have not yet reached me.

6 , Bracton'sNote Book, Nos. 3,818, 1,192, 1,582,Google Scholaret passim; Abbreviate Placitorum, 64, 77,109.

7 De Legibus Anglie, Woodbine's, G. E. edition, especially III, 168–189Google Scholar.

8 Statutes of the Realm, I, i, c. 4; 71, c. 7, 8, 46.

9 See, for example, map of Fleet, Lincolnshire, British Academy Records, in N. Neil-son, ed., Terrier of Fleet. H. C. Darby, Medieval Fenland.

10 Domesday Book, i, 38; Domesday Book and Beyond, 355.

11 Coke on Littleton, fol. 122 a.

12 See note 6.

13 See note 17.

14 See Neilson, op. cit., xlvii et seq.

15 Domesday Book, 69 et seq.

16 Wood, Tithe Causes, passim.

17 Lambeth MSS. 1,212, f. 85, South Mailing, Custumal, 5,707 ff. 167, 170; Battle Abbey Custumal, 38; Neilson, Cartulary of Bilsington, Kent, Brit. Acad. Records, 35 bis.

18 Fisher, Forest of Essex, passim.

19 Domesday Book, i, 18b, 32, 41b, 51, 169b, 172,177, 183, 249b, 269.

20 Victoria County History, Kent, III, 190 et seq.

21 N. Neilson, in English Government at Work, I, Royal Forests. I hope to continue the study of the early forests.

22 Ibid.

23 Bloch, M., Les caractères originaux de I'histoire rurale francaise, 5et seq.Google Scholar; G. Huffel, Economic forestiire, passim.

24 Neilson, N., Cartulary of Bilsington, Kent, Brit. Acad. Records, 41, 46, 51et seqGoogle Scholar.

25 , Neilson, “Custom and the Common Law in Kent,” Harvard Law Review, 02, 1925Google Scholar.