The English Village Community / Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

by Frederic Seebohm

[220.] C. xvii.

[221.] Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales. Record Commission, 1841. See preface by Aneurin Owen.

[222.] Venedotian Code. Ancient Laws of Wales, pp. 81–2, and see pp. 644–6 (Welsh Laws). Mr. Skene, in his chapter on The Tribe in Wales in his Celtic Scotland, iii. pp. 200, 201, does not seem to have grasped fully the distinction between the free tribesmen and their family land on the one hand and the Aillts and Taeogs with their geldable or register land on the other. Everything, however, turns upon this. Compare Welsh Laws, xiv. s. 31 and s. 32 (pp. 739–741), where the distinction is again clearly stated.

[223.] Ancient Laws of Wales, p. 638 (s. 45).

[224.] Id. 651 (s. 83).

[225.] P. 639 (s. 51).

[226.] Pp. 81–2.

[227.] See the surveys in the Record of Carnarvon (14th century), where the holdings are sometimes called 'Weles,' thus:—'In eadem villa sunt tria Wele libera, viz. Wele Yarthur ap Ruwon Wele Joz. ap Ruwon and Wele Keneth ap Ruwon. Et sunt heredes predicte Wele de Yarthur ap Ruwon, Eign. ap Griffiri and Hoell. ap Griffri et alii coheredes sui;' and so on of the other Weles (p. 11). This is the common form of the survey passim.

[228.] Ancient Laws, &c., of Wales, p. 741.

[229.] Id. pp. 82 and 740.