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

[483.] Id. p. 60.

[484.] Urkundenbuch, p. 106.

[485.] "Et ad proximam curtem vestram in unaquaque zelga ebdomedarii jurnalem arare debeamus" (p. 107).

[486.] Waitz speaks of the three great fields under the 'Dreifelderwirthschaft' as 'Zelgen.'—Verfassung der Deutschen Völker, i. 120. And see infra, chap. x. s. iii.

[487.] Pertz, Legum, iii. pp. 51, 52.

[488.] Pertz, Legum, t. iii. pp. 278–280.

[489.] Compare Chlotharii II. Præceptio (584–628) s. 11. 'Agraria, pascuaria vel decimas porcorum ecclesiæ pro fidei nostræ devotione concedimus, ita ut actor aut decimator in rebus ecclesiæ nullus accedat.'—Mon. Germ. Hist. Capitularia, I. i. p. 19.

[490.] This word 'accola' is often used in charters for 'free coloni.'

[491.] In the Glosses this andecena is called a 'sharwork.'

[492.] Geschichte der Dorfverfassung in Deutschland, i. pp. 6 et seq.