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(80) The first three of these mirror the emerging rules in England under which local customs would be considered valid at common law, as outlined by Coke in the Compleat Copyholder and the Institutes.

(Several allusions to Othello in word and scene construction underscore the latent darkness of Widow's comic characters and of course, provided the copyholder with arguments for a Shakespeare connection.) (40)

Although the legal differences between an East Anglian free- or copyholder and a Massachusetts landowner were of little importance with respect to the ability of the copyholder to sell and inherit the land and the fixed status of copyhold rents, the meaning of landownership differed enormously.

The family might remain on the very same land as tenants or in the village, but it no longer owned the land, whether as a free-holder or a copyholder. Ownership - not occupation or residence - is what is at stake here, and because of the drift of land into the hands of larger owners we cannot expect other than to find that the land-family bond was weak in the later seventeenth century.

(25) Once deforestation had taken place the king granted the partially enclosed forest, about 3,000 acres, to 'courtiers and government officials'; 'copyholders and freeholders' could claim common rights on the 17,000 remaining outlining acres.

Hill explained that the Levellers argued for the redistribution of the franchise and the direct election of sheriffs and Justices of the Peace, sought law reform, pressed for security of tenure for copyholders, and advocated the abolition of the monarchy, the House of Lords, tithes, conscription, excise, and the privileges of peers, corporations, and trading companies.

It was in the eastern counties that the tenure of copyhold took root during the expansive years of the sixteenth century, thus laying the ground for the emergence of the English yeomen, "a process engineered by the copyholders themselves." What a pity Smith mentions neither the wool trade, so important in the area, nor its obvious proximity to Europe, particularly Holland which developed a similarly precocious kind of agrarian social differentiation (the book contains no essay on the Netherlands).

Those present at Inions farmhouse, nestling above the vale of St Albans on the Hertfordshire-Bedfordshire border, included Robert Green, agent for the local manorial lords, the dean and chapter of St Paul's cathedral, and eight leading Caddington copyholders. Negotiations had been protracted, yet Green was confident that his terms were sufficiently attractive to bind the copyholders in to a complex transaction by which approximately 400 acres of waste in Caddington Great Wood, locally known as Caddington Common, would be improved.

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Keyboards, CRT's, copyholders and chairs are often placed at improper and uncomfortable heights.

"was partial to pretty-faced, plump-figured young ladies for copyholders in his establishment, where he read the proofs." (1c) At first the Women's Co-operative Printing Union shared a building with the firm of E.