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

[575.] Landau, p. 54. 'Die alte Form dieses Wortes ist ezzisc, ezzisca, ezzisch (gothisch atisk), und wird in den Glossen durch segetes erklärt.'

[576.] Hanssen's chapter, 'Zur Geschichte der Feldsysteme in Deutschland,' in his Agrarhistorische Abhandlungen, p. 194.

[577.] 'Si illum sepem eruperit vel dissipaverit quem Ezzisczun vocant,' &c. Textus Legis Primus, x. 16. Pertz, p. 309. In id. x. 21 the words 'Semitæ convicinales' are used of open fields. In the Burgundian Laws 'Additamentum Primum,' tit. 1, 'Agri communes.'

[578.] Landau, pp. 54–5.

[579.] Passau received its name from a Roman legion of Batavi having been stationed there.—Mon. Boica, xxx. p. 83. Landau, p. 49.

[580.] In East Friesland, under the one-field system, the word 'flaggen' is used for 'furlongs.' Hanssen, p. 198.

[581.] Landau, p. 32.

[582.] There are great numbers to be seen from the railway from Ems as far as Nordhausen on the route to Berlin.

[583.] Thus Rainbalken is the turf balk left unploughed as a boundary.

[584.] Halliwell. 'Räin,' a ridge (north). See also Studies, by Joseph Lucas, F.G.S., c. viii., where there is an interesting description of the 'Reins' in Nidderdale. These terraces occur in the neighbouring dales of Billsdale, Bransdale, and Furndale; and also in Wharfdale and the valley of the Ribble, &c.