[235]See below, pp. [139–147] and [304–310.]
[236] Northumberland County History, vol. ii.
[237] Ibid., vol. iii. pp. 86–94. On this manor at the time of the survey, though the distinction between the old rent and the “cleare yearly value above the old rent" was noted, the latter seems to have been tapped by a rise in rents ("cleere improved rent above the ould rent").
[238] Rochdale Manor Inquisition, 1610, by H. Fishwick (Trans. of the Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society, vol. vii.).
[239] Merton Documents, MSS. Book labelled “Kibworth and Barkby, 1636.” For another illustration of fixed copyhold rents, see Maitland, English Hist. Review, vol. ix.: The History of a Cambridgeshire Manor.
[240] Quoted, Leadam, “The Security of Copyholders in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries" (English Historical Review, vol. viii. pp. 684–696). The case in question was that of the inhabitants of Thingden v. John Mulsho.
[241] See below, pp. [329–331].
[242] Bracton, f. 164 b.: “Succuritur ei per recognitionem Assisæ novæ dissesinæ multis vigiliis excogitatam et inventam" (quoted Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law, vol. i. p. 125 n.).
[243] Bracton, Lib. iv. cap. 28, f. 208.
[244] Northumberland County History, vol. iii., Pt. V., pp. 86–104, Survey of Hexham (1608): “Their fines they pretend to be certain, viz. one year’s rent at everye change of tenant, but not herritable. They have there, for certaine, very ancient evidences and Court Rolls, but they woulde not show them unto us, nor any of their coppies.” See also [Appendix I. No. IV].