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

[364.] Varro. i. 13.

[365.] Cato, R. R. 2. Columella, R. R. i. 6–8. M. Guerard says of the 'villicus,' 'Cet officier est le même que nous retrouvons au moyen âge sous son ancien nom de villicus, ou sous le nom nouveau de major.' Polyptique d'Irminon, i. 442.

[366.] Columella, De Re Rustica, i. 8.

[367.] Plutarch, Cato, c. 21. See Cod. Theod. IX. xii.

[368.] 'Classes etiam non majores quam denum hominum faciundæ, quas decurias appellaverunt antiqui et maxime probaverunt.'—Columella, i. 9.

[369.] Fragment Jur. Rom. Vatic. 272. Huschke, p. 774.

[370.] Polyptique d'Irminon, i. pp. 45 and 456.

[371.] Bede, III. c. xxiv. 'Singulæ possessiones decem erant familiarum.'

[372.] See also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, anno 777, where mention is made of '10 bonde lands' given to the monks at Medeshampstede.

[373.] Varro, i. xvii.