The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

by R. H. Tawney

• Cultivators, see Peasants

• Crown, the, see Council, Court, and Index of Persons

• Crown tenants—
  • at Wheatley 302, [413–415]
  • in Wales, [298], [302]
  • on Northumbrian border, [190–191], [299]

• Custom of the Manor, the, see Copyholders, Manor

• Customary—
  • of Aldeburgh, [411–412]
  • " Bushey, [126–128]
  • " High Furness, [101]

• Customary Court, see Court of Manor

• Customary tenants—
  • statistics of, [24–26], [48]
  • see also Copyholders

• Dairy farming, [215]

• Day work of copyholders, [52–53]

• Demesne land—
  • absent from some northern manors, [203]
  • acreage of farms on, [212–213]
  • added to peasants' holdings, [93–95], [204–209]
  • changes in use of after Great Plague, [93–95], [204–209]
  • conversion to pasture of, [223–228]
  • customary routine of agriculture on, [217], [228–229]
  • difficulty of discriminating between peasants' land and, [95]
  • effect of division of among peasants, [91–93]
  • foundation of large farm in sixteenth century, [202–203]
  • gradual consolidation of, [221–223], [254–256]
  • insecurity of copyholders on, [289], [293–294]
  • leased to capitalist farmer, [210–212]
  • leased to smallholders, [94–95], [204–205]
  • leased to village community, [205–207]
  • lying in compact blocks, [221–223], [254–256]
  • lying in scattered strips, [221–222]
  • peasants' land merged in, [257–258]
  • progress of enclosure on, [216–223]
  • proportion of manorial area formed by, [259]
  • rents paid for, [256]
  • rights of common over, [234]
  • statistics as to use of, [225–226]
  • unemployment caused by enclosure of, [232–233]