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Excerpt from The English Borough in the Twelfth Century: Being Two Lectures Delivered in the Examination Schools, Oxford, on 22 and 29 October, 1913
Admission: he was liable in many cases to be tallaged at the will of his lord; when he died his lord took his best beast by way of heriot, and his heir paid a heavy relief on succeeding to his father's land: if his heiress were unmarried, the lord had the right of giving her in marriage to whomsoever he chose, and he usually chose the highest bidder: all these restrictions reduced the villein to a state of economic slavery. The tenant in socage was better off his rent was a money rent though he often had to work on his lord's demesne at specially busy seasons: he could sell his cattle and even his land without the payment of a fine to his lord usually no heriot was payable on the death of a socager, and the relief, if any, was but nominal: his kinsmen were the guardians of his infant children and the lord had no control over the marriage of his heiress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
