[22] Vinogradoff, op. cit. p. 433.
[23] In Domesday they number 108,500. Maitland, Domesday Book.
[24] Maitland, op. cit..
[25] Vinogradoff, English Society in the Eleventh Century, p. 300.
[26] Domesday of S. Paul, p. lxviii.
[27] Maitland, Domesday Book, p. 56.
[28] Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, i. 166. In some manors free tenants could sell their lands without the lord's licence, in others not.
[29] Vinogradoff, Villeinage in England, p. 279.
[30] Vinogradoff, Villeinage in England, p. 285.
[31] Ibid. p. 246; and English Society in the Eleventh Century, p. 448. At the end of the eighteenth century, in default of sons, lands in some manors in Shropshire descended to the youngest daughter.—Bishton, General View of the Agriculture of Shropshire, p. 178.