[359] Owen and Blakeway, op. cit. I. 165.
[360] Clarkson’s History of Richmond. Richmond, 1821 (authority not quoted).
[361] Hailstone, History of Bottisham and the Priory of Anglesey. Camb. 1873. (Transact. Camb. Antiq. Soc. 8vo. series, vol. XIV.)
[362] Cited by Jessopp, l. c.
[363] See p. 141.
[364] Clutterbuck, History of Hertfordshire.
[365] Seebohm, for the Manor of Winslow, op. cit., p. 34.
[366] Thorold Rogers, Fort. Rev. III. (1865), p. 196. In his History of Agriculture and Prices, IV., the same learned and sagacious student of English developments thus sums up the agrarian consequences of the Black Death:—“The indirect effects of this great event were even more remarkable. The great landowner ceases to carry on agriculture with his own capital, and farmers’ rents of a fixed and almost invariable amount take the place of the lord’s cultivation by bailiffs. Attempts were made for varying periods of time to continue the old system, especially by corporations. It is possible that the system of stock and land leasing, which became very general after the change commenced, may have been suggested by the hope that the old state of things might be restored.... In the end all the great landowners conformed to the inevitable change, and let their land on short leases, and as a rule at low and almost fixed rents, to capitalist farmers.”
[367] Thorold Rogers, op. cit., I. 376.
[368] Rot. Parl., II. 260. a.