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COPYHOLD, estate in the English law. A copyhold estate is a parcel of a manor, held at the will of the lord, according to the custom of the manor, by a grant from the lord, and admittance of the tenant, entered on the rolls of the manor court. Cruise, Dig. t. 10, c. 1, s. 3. Vide Ch. Pr. Index, h.t.

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Here, as always, he is careful to define his terms--custom itself, copyhold, and their relationship with the common law. Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England by Schmidt, Albert J. / Journal of Social History He also saw his fellow countrymen as having been made corrupt and effeminate by years of servitude, "by nature slaves, and arrant beasts; not fitt for that liberty which they cri'd out and bellow'd for, but fitter to be led back again into thir old servitude, like a sort of clamouring & fighting brutes, broke loos from thir copyholds, that know not how to use or possess the liberty which they fought for" (Eikonoklastes XXVII, Works, 5:290). Milton on Machiavelli: representations of the state in 'Paradise ... by Riebling, Barbara / Renaissance Quarterly It was in the eastern counties that the tenure of copyhold took root during the expansive years of the sixteenth century, thus laying the ground for the emergence of the English yeomen, "a process engineered by the copyholders themselves. The Peasantries of Europe: From the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth ... by Dallas, Gregor / Journal of Social History More results

Here, as always, he is careful to define his terms--custom itself, copyhold, and their relationship with the common law.

Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England by Schmidt, Albert J. / Journal of Social History

He also saw his fellow countrymen as having been made corrupt and effeminate by years of servitude, "by nature slaves, and arrant beasts; not fitt for that liberty which they cri'd out and bellow'd for, but fitter to be led back again into thir old servitude, like a sort of clamouring & fighting brutes, broke loos from thir copyholds, that know not how to use or possess the liberty which they fought for" (Eikonoklastes XXVII, Works, 5:290).

Milton on Machiavelli: representations of the state in 'Paradise ... by Riebling, Barbara / Renaissance Quarterly

It was in the eastern counties that the tenure of copyhold took root during the expansive years of the sixteenth century, thus laying the ground for the emergence of the English yeomen, "a process engineered by the copyholders themselves.

The Peasantries of Europe: From the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth ... by Dallas, Gregor / Journal of Social History

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