Society in the Elizabethan age . was to obtain fixity of tenure, so that of the free-tenant was to acquire the freehold of his farm. Rent hadincreased in most cases in a far higher ratio than the valueof produce. Moreover the agriculturist was not directlybenefited by the thriftless expenditure of the dissolute gentryas was the citizen. His, therefore, was the voice that in timesof civil tumult clamoured for the landlords to be exterminated,while the worthy citizen was content with a promise of if rents were excessive, title in land was precarious to thegreat, and proportionally che
Society in the Elizabethan age . was to obtain fixity of tenure, so that of the free-tenant was to acquire the freehold of his farm. Rent hadincreased in most cases in a far higher ratio than the valueof produce. Moreover the agriculturist was not directlybenefited by the thriftless expenditure of the dissolute gentryas was the citizen. His, therefore, was the voice that in timesof civil tumult clamoured for the landlords to be exterminated,while the worthy citizen was content with a promise of if rents were excessive, title in land was precarious to thegreat, and proportionally cheap to the humble speculator whotook his opportunities. The contrast, indeed, is strikingbetween the rigorous provisions of an ordinary legal demisesuch as any of those which survive made between ArchbishopSandys and his son (the lawyer and pupil of Hooker), or thelatter and his own sub-tenants, and the easy tenure ofwhat in so many cases may justly be called a customaryfreehold by copy of court roll, qualified by the immemorial. Copyhold House.
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