[101] Norden, The Surveyor’s Dialogue. He continues: “For in some places of this Realme Tennants have no copies at all of their lands or tenements, or anything to show for that they hold, but there is an entry made in the Court Books, and that is their evidence.”
[102] See [Appendix II.]
[103] Archbishop Sandys to Queen Elizabeth, Saturday 24 November to 4 December, 1582 (quoted by E. Arber, The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, pp. 61–64).
[104] Harrison in Elizabethan England (Withington), p. 120.
[105] Quoted by Nasse, The Land Community of the Middle Ages (Ouvry’s trans.). I have not been able to trace the reference.
[106] Norden, The Surveyor’s Dialogue.
[107] E.g., R.O. Rentals and Surveys Gen. Ser., Portf. 27, No. 32, Dunstall (Suffolk): “Bond land held by copy of court roll, 13s. 4d. Of holders of 3 bond pightells, 5s. 4d.” MSS. of Earl of Leicester at Holkham, Tittleshall Books, No. 62, Langham Hall (Norfolk): “Redditus assissæ native tenentium. ... John Rose per copiam, 4d.” R.O. Rentals and Surveys Gen. Ser. Portf. 14, No. 70, Barton (Staffs.): “T. Collinson 1 messuage 1/4 virgate land de bond ... by copy 2 Hen. viii.”
[108] MSS. of Earl of Leicester at Holkham, Billingford and Bintry MSS., No. 9, Foxley: “Native tenentium per copiam rotuli curiæ.”
[109] Roxburghe Club, Surveys of Manors of William, First Earl of Pembroke.
[110] Roxburghe Club, Surveys of Manors of William, First Earl of Pembroke.