Synopsis of Chapters. xi 



CHAPTER VIII. 



ITS CUSTOMS. p^Qg 



Famines, pestilences, and bad seasons commented on — Frequency of 

 astronomical portents — A bird's-eye view of the country at- 

 tempted — Description of the lord's house ; its furniture and 

 inmates — The village and its church — The life of the Anglo- 

 Saxon country gentleman ; his sports, food, manners, dress and 

 tastes — The social and official distinctions of the classes com- 

 posing the landed interest — The obstacles to successful hus- 

 bandry — Prices of farm produce, and the pursuits of the various 

 husbandmen 105 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE LAND IN ITS CONNECTION WITH CHURCH AND STATE. 



The Land in its relation to the Church — The British Church — Close 

 connection between Church and State — Early institution of 

 Tithe payments — Evidence of canons, charters, and statutes — 

 Their various terms distinguished — The nature of King Ethel- 

 wulf's gift — Varieties of tithe — The question whether quadri- 

 partite or tripartite distribution was ever adopted in this 

 country — Lord Selborne's conclusions — The introduction of the 

 parish — The results to the Landed Interest of the tithe charges 

 Other church dues discussed — Kirk Schot, Cyriesceat, Plow 

 Alms, Leoh Schot, Soul Schot, and Peter's Pence — Secular 

 charges on the land — The tendency for all fiscal systems to 

 look to the land solely as the source of revenue — The results of 

 this a system of land surveyance — Its strange accuracy and the 

 possible influence of the Roman ayrimensor on the Norman 

 Domesday survey 122 



XLbe IRorman pedob, 



CHAPTER X. 



DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN CONQUEROR AND CONQUERED. 



The change of nomenclature — Race enmity and race identity con- 

 trasted — Contact of Teutonic influences with Roman — Lactic 

 Land Tenure — The Emphyteutic system and feudalism — The 

 common religion of both Nationalities — Its failure to reconcile 

 race-hatred — The relationship between the Crown and aris- 

 tocracy — Life on the barony, and the habits of the Norman lord 

 — The military exigencies of the period, and their effects on Land 

 Tenure and husbandry — The pastimes of the Normans and 

 Anglo-Saxons, and ethnic distinctions in their domestic habits 

 — The causes why a race-hatred became a class-hatred, and then 

 died out 132 



CHAPTER XI. 



FEUDALISM. 



Relationship of the Crown to the soil — Royal grants of seignorial 

 rights and the economy of the manorial system — Private and 

 royal jurisdictory rights — The Court Baron and the Court Leet 

 — Public and private justice contrasted — A 13th century town 

 during the assizes — The services of the subject an exchange for 

 royal grants of seignorial rights — Land Tenure converted into 



