[14] Sir Walter Scott's novel, Ivanhoe (chapter xii), contains a description of a tournament.
[15] Don Quixote, by the Spanish writer, Cervantes (1547-1616 A.D.), is a famous satire on chivalry. Our American "Mark Twain" also stripped off the gilt and tinsel of chivalry in his amusing story entitled A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
[16] See page 208.
[17] According to Domesday Book (see page 499) there were 9250 manors, of which William the Conqueror possessed 1422. His manors lay in about thirty counties.
[18] This "open field" system of agriculture, as it is usually called, still survives in some parts of Europe. See the plan of Hitchin Manor, page 435.
[19] See page 581-582.
[20] See page 612.