[502] In the following section on copyholders I have been guided largely by Dr. Savine’s article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. xix.

[503] Fitzherbert, Book of Surveying, p. 28.

[504] Kitchin, Court Leet.

[505] Coke, The Complete Copyholder.

[506] Leadam, Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., New Series, vol. vi.

[507] Vinogradoff, Villainage in England, pp. 48–56.

[508] Ashley, Economic History, Part I., vol. ii. pp. 274–282.

[509] Coke upon Littleton, 60 b.

[510] Coke, The Complete Copyholder.

[511] Note-book of Bracton pl., 1237: “Dominus rex non vult se de eis [intromittere]" (quoted Vinogradoff, Villainage in England, p. 46, note 2).