[245] Hist. MSS. Com., Part VII., pp. 49–50 (1596): Some information concerning those intending the rebellion in Oxford.... “And Steer said that there was once a rising at Enscombe Hill by the commons, and they were persuaded to go down and were after hanged like dogs. ‘But,’ said he, ‘we will never yield, but will go through with it!’”
[246] See below, pp. [334–337.]
[247] Warburton’s Rupert, iii., 118 (quoted Gooch, English Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century, p. 112).
[248] See below, pp. [287–310].
[249] I take them from the MSS. Court Rolls of the Manor of Bushey, kindly lent me by the late Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith.
[250] Aldeburgh, temp. Henry VIII., R.O. Misc. Bks. Treas. of Receipts, vol. clxiii. See [Appendix I., No. II.]
[251] Some copyholders, who held land which was not “customary land" but part of the demesne or the waste, were not protected by custom either: for a discussion of this point see below, pp. [293–294].
[252] See below for an example from Crondal, p. [295].
[253] MS. Transcript by A.N. Palmer of “The Presentment and Verdict of the Jury for the Manor of Hewlington,” 1620 (Wrexham Free Library, Ancient Local Records, vol. ii.): “Which decay (as by the ancient records appeareth) did growe by reason of the great mortalitie and plague which in former tymes had been in the reign of Edward III., and also of the rebellion of Owen Glendower and trouble that thereupon ensued.”
[254] Victoria County History of Gloucestershire, Social and Economic History, p. 146. For agrarian strikes see below, pp. [329–331].