For over a thousand years a particular way of living prevailed in many areas of the country. It was introduced to this country, it is believed, by the Anglo-Saxon’s and it appears to have been a revolutionary way of living. The system they introduced must have been small in scope […]
A history of the commons: the courts. Debates over the historical origins of rights of common were one thing but the legal system had to take a pragmatic view of their legal status and that view had to confirm to their wider understanding of the law. Thus it came to […]
A history of the commons: Quia Emptores With the exception of the crown nobody in the medieval period owned any land. Everyone who ‘held’ land was, in one way or another, a tenant of the crown. At the top were the tenants in capite or as they became known the tenants in […]
John Martin of Evershot 