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CHAPTER III 



The Disposition of the Money Penalties under the Statutes of 



Labourers 98 



(i) Period of the triennial grants of 1348 and 1352; the claims of 



the taxpayers 99 



A. Tenth and fifteenth of 1348 99 



B. Tenth and fifteenth of 1352 106 



(a) System of collection and distribution of the penalties . 108 



(b) Embezzlement by collectors 120 



(c) A comparison of the amount of the penalties with that 



. of the tax 127 



(2) Period after the cessation of the triennial grants of 1348 and 1352. 131 



A. The rights of the crown: Easter, 1351, to Easter, 1352; 



Michaelmas, 1354, to November, 1359 131 



B. The claims of the lords of franchises 138 



PART II 



The Enforcement of the Statutes of Labourers in the Old Local 

 Courts and in the Central Courts 151 



CHAPTER I 



The Old Local Courts : Communal Courts of the County and 

 OF THE Hundred; Seignorial Courts, Feudal and 



Franchise; Municipal Courts 153 



CHAPTER H 

 Central Courts: King's Bench and Common Pleas, 1349-1377 166 



(i) The treatment of the sources 166 



{2) Numerical account of actions on the statutes of labourers . . 170 



(3) Clauses of the ordinance and statute on which the actions are 



brought 174 



(4) Classes to which the compulsory service and contract clauses 



applied 179 



(5) The contract 189 



(6) The effect of the compulsory service and contract clauses on 



the lord's relation to his villeins 199 



(7) Judgments and verdicts . 206 



