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A History of the County of Oxford
… d. to escort her to her wedding for up to 20 leagues. Such tenures had perhaps evolved from those of a superior class of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a. in 1769. 84 By 1812 there were only two large leasehold tenures and three cottage holdings, but the number may have …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… held freely at rent, the peasants held mostly by customary tenures, 224 many of them probably did not render labour … 5/Cambs. Tower ser. no. 16, rot. 13, which gives the 1279 tenures stated below. e.g. Bk. of Fees, ii. 921; Cal. Close, …