[227a] Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (New Series), xix. 103.
[227b] Ibid. xi. 74 sq.
[228] Nasse, Agricultural Community of the Middle Ages, p. 9. Archaeologia, xxxiii. 270.
[229] In the still surviving open fields at Laxton, mentioned above, there are certain unploughed portions called 'sicks', or grassy patches, never cultivated.—Slater, op. cit. p. 9.
[230] Archaeologia, xlvi. 374.
[231] Description of Britain, ii. 150.
[232] In the reign of Mary, 'the plain poor people did make very much of acorns.' Cullum, Hawsted, p. 181.
[233] Eden, State of the Poor, i. 116.
[234] Itinerary, iii. 140.
[235] Rutland Magazine, i. 64.