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

[289.] Id. p. 160, quoting the Tribes and Customs of Hy Many.

[290.] Calendars of State Papers, Ireland, 1606–8, pp. 491–2.

[291.] Skene's Celtic Scotland, iii. c. vi.

[292.] In a poem of the sixteenth century (1507–22), in Manks, given in Train's Isle of Man, i. p. 50, occur the lines—

'Ayns dagh treen Balley ren eh unnane

D'an sleih shen ayn dy heet dy ghuee,'

alluding to St. Germain; translated thus by Mr. Train:—

'For each four quarterlands he made a chapel

For people of them to meet in prayer.'

For the 'quarterlands' see Statute of the Tinwald Court, 1645. Also Feltham's Tour, Manx Society, p. 41, &c.