[386]. See Pipe Roll, 29 Henry II., cited Madox, I. 483.
[388]. E.g. Coke, Second Institute, p. 13.
[389]. VII. c. 10.
[390]. II. folio 87.
[391]. See Appendix.
[392]. Another way of “wasting” villeins was by tallaging them excessively. (For meaning of tallage cf. infra c. 12.) Thus Bracton’s Note Book reveals how one guardian destruxit villanos per tallagia (v. case 485); how another exiled or destroyed villeins to the value of 300 marks (case 574); how a third destroyed two rich villeins so that they became poor and beggars and exiles (case 632). Cf. also case 691. Daines Barrington, writing towards the middle of the eighteenth century, went too far when he inferred from this passage “that the villeins who held by servile tenure were considered as so many negroes on a sugar plantation” (Observations, p. 7.). For a definition of “villein” see infra c. 20.
[393]. Cf. supra, pp. [202-5].
[394]. 3 Edward I. c. 21.
[395]. 6 Edward I. c. 5.