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A History of the County of Shropshire
… century agricultural recession at first impoverished the peasants but later gave survivors of the Black Death the …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
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A History of the County of Shropshire
… priory's grange at Pecknall was leased to a group of four peasants in 1373 and in 1406 six tenants took the demesne at … and around the town and became the 'heirs of the soil'. 93 Peasants The surviving records inevitably focus attention on … the buying and selling of small parcels of land by free peasants in the 14th century. 6 The peasant land market was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Stanhope considered that the living conditions of the peasants of south-west Shropshire were 'deplorably low', …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 92 In the 13th century about half of the county's landed peasants had virgate or its equivalent, that is 30 a. or a little less. 93 Only c. 15 per cent of the landed peasants held a full virgate, while the rest held virgate (a … been seen, the relationships, contracts, and bonds between peasants. It is clear, though little documented in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… other than arable land: services and dues exacted from the peasants, and income from mills, fisheries, and other …