[32] Vinogradoff, English Society in the Eleventh Century, p. 456.
[33] Maitland, Domesday Book, p. 40.
[34] Ibid.
[35] Maitland, Domesday Book, p. 35.
[36] Fleta, c. 73.
[37] Domesday of S. Paul, xxxv. Fleta, 'an anonymous work drawn up in the thirteenth century to assist landowners in managing their estates' says, the reeve 'shall rise early, and have the ploughs yoked, and then walk in the fields to see that all is right and note if the men be idle, or if they knock off work before the day's task is fully done.'
[38] Vinogradoff, Villeinage in England, p. 321.
[39] Ibid. p. 324.
[40] Manor of Manydown, Hampshire Record Society, p. 17. Breaking the assize of beer meant selling it without a licence, or of bad quality. The village pound was the consequence of the perpetual straying of animals, and later on the vicar sometimes kept it. See ibid. p. 104.
[41] Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, i. 106.