  - CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM EXAMINED IN ITS MODERN REMAINS.
- 1. The distinctive marks of the open-field system 1
- 2. Scattered and intermixed ownership in the open fields 7
- 3. The open fields were the common fields of a village community or township under a manor 8
- 4. The wide prevalence of the system through Great Britain 13
- CHAPTER II. THE ENGLISH OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM TRACED BACK TO THE DOMESDAY SURVEY—IT IS THE SHELL OF SERFDOM—THE MANOR WITH A VILLAGE COMMUNITY IN VILLENAGE UPON IT.
- 1. The identity of the system with that of the Middle Ages 17
- 2. The Winslow Manor Rolls of the reign of Edward III.—example of a virgate or yard-land 22
- 3. The Hundred Rolls of Edward I. embracing five Midland Counties 32
- 4. The Hundred Rolls (continued).—Relation of the virgate to the hide and carucate 36
- 5. The Hundred Rolls (continued).—The services of the villein tenants 40
- 6. Description in Fleta of a manor in the time of Edward I. 45
- 7. S.E. of England—The hide and virgate under other names (the records of Battle Abbey and St. Paul's) 49
- 8. The relation of the virgate to the hide traced in the cartularies of Gloucester and Worcester Abbeys, and the custumal of Bleadon in Somersetshire 55
- 9. Cartularies of Newminster and Kelso, thirteenth century—The connexion of the holdings with the common plough team of eight oxen 60
- 10. The Boldon Book, A.D. 1183 68
- 11. The 'Liber Niger' of Peterborough Abbey, A.D. 1125 72
- 12. Summary of the post-Domesday evidence 76
- CHAPTER III. THE DOMESDAY SURVEY (A.D. 1086).
- 1. There were manors everywhere 82
- 2. The division of the manor into lord's demesne and land in villenage 84
- 3. The free tenants on the lord's demesne 86
- 4. The classes of tenants in villenage 89
- 5. The villani were holders of virgates, &c. 91
- 6. The holdings of the bordarii or cottiers 95
- 7. The Domesday survey of the Villa of Westminster 97
- 8. The extent of the cultivated land of England, and how much was included in the yard-lands of the villani 101
- CHAPTER IV. THE OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM TRACED IN SAXON TIMES—THE SCATTERING OF THE STRIPS ORIGINATED IN THE METHODS OF CO-ARATION.
- 1. The village fields under Saxon rule were open fields 105
- 2. The holdings were composed of scattered strips 110
- 3. The open-field system of co-aration described in the ancient laws of Wales 117
- CHAPTER V. MANORS AND SERFDOM UNDER SAXON RULE.
- 1. The Saxon 'hams' and 'tuns' were manors with village communities in serfdom upon them 126
- 2. The 'Rectitudines Singularum Personarum' 129
- 3. The thane and his services 134
- 4. The geneats and their services 137
- 5. The double and ancient character of the services of the gebur—Gafol and week-work 142
- 6. Serfdom on a manor of King Edwy 148
- 7. Serfdom on a manor of King Alfred
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