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Identifier: medivalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the estate for one year. A Fine upon Alienation was a sum of money paid to the lordby a vassal for permission to alienate his fief, that is, to substituteanother vassal in his place. By Escheat was meant the falling back of the fief into thehands of the lord through failure of heirs. If the fief lapsedthrough disloyalty or other misdemeanor on the part of the vassal,this was known as Forfeiture. Aids were sums of money which the lord had a right to demandto enable him to meet unusual expenditures, especially for defray-ing the expense of knighting his eldest son, for providing a mar-riage dower for his eldest daughter, and for ransoming his ownperson from captivity in case he were made a prisoner of war.^ 1 The right of wardship was the right of the lord, when a successor to a fiefwas a minor, to assume the guardianship of the heir and to enjoy the revenues of thefief until his ward became of age. The right of marriage was the right of the lord toselect a husband for his female ward.
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Photograph of an Open Field in Hitchin Manor Showing the grassy balks, or unplowed furrows, which take the place of hedgesand divide the acre and half-acre strips of the great open field * This map is based on charts in Secbohms The English Village Communiiy, andillustrates the open-field system of cultivation of the mediaeval manor. The thirty scatteredstrips colored red represent tlie normal holding of a villain (-villanus); the strips coloredblue, comprising about one thud of the land of the manor, show tlie way in which thedemesne of the lord was often made up of numerous tracts scattered about the open fieldsinstead of forming a continuous tract around the manor house ; the areas colored greenrepresent the meadows and common pasture lands. § 91) SERF5 AND SERFDOM 79 The chief return that the lord was bound to make to the vassalas a compensation for these various services and rights was justiceand protection,-—by no means a small return in an age of turmoiland insecurity. 91. S

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