X Synopsis of Chapters. 



CHAPTEE IV. 



THE MARK SYSTEM. 



PAGE 



Ethnic peculiarities of the Teuton more akin to those of Briton 

 than of Roman — Evidences of Teutonic origin — The allusions 

 to Germanic habits by Csesar and Tacitus analysed and com- 

 pared — The latter's passage in chap. xxvi. of the Germania 

 examined — The theorist's description of the Mark system de- 

 scribed, criticised, and compared with the Eoman writings and 

 later Germanic Land Tenure 45 



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CHAPTER V. 



THE COJfNECTION OF ROMAN, BRITISH AXD TEUTONIC SYSTEMS 

 WITH ANGLO-SAXON LAND TENURE. 



Contention that the Teutonic land system was not peculiar to our 

 race — The theories of modern research examined and compared 

 — The evolution of a manorial system worked out through the 

 same progressive stages in several European nationalities, and 

 the state of civilization in this country at the time of the 

 Anglo-Saxon invasion demonstrated therefrom — The peculiari- 

 ties of the invasion 58 



CHAPTER VI. 



SEIGNORIAL POWERS. 



The results of the invasion on the national constitution — Seignorial 

 jurisdiction and its effects on Land Tenure — Public and private 

 courts of justice — Popular rights of land ownership reconciled 

 with those of the over-lord — Evidences of a survival of village 

 communal economy demonstrated and contrasted with those of 

 manorial economy — Origin of the Shire, Hundred, Court Leet, 

 Halmote and Frankpledge— The advanced stage of Anglo-Saxon 

 land legislation demonstrated 74 



CHAPTER VII. 



LAND TENURE AND AGRICULTURE. 



The division of England's soil into private, semi-private, and public 

 lands — Seignorial and popular rights described, and the history 

 of the absorption of the latter into the former sketched out — 

 The chief features of the country at the beginning of Anglo- 

 Saxon Land Tenure — The distinctions between Folcland and 

 Bocland, and the relationship of king, lord, and people to both 

 — The effects of the growing seignorial powers contrasted with 

 what remains of popular rights at the present daj- — The inter- 

 nal economy of the manor, and the duties, services, and agri- 

 culture of its lord and people — An historical sketch summarising 

 the vicissitudes of the common field sj'Stem from its inception 

 to its abolition — The Anglo-Saxon Land Tenure contrasted with 

 the Continental and Norman feudal systems, and a brief sum- 

 mary of land taxation given 93 



