The Domesday of St. Paul's of the Year M. CC. XXII, or Registrum De Visitatione Maneriorum Per Robertum Decanum

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Excerpt from The Domesday of St. Paul's of the Year M. CC. XXII, or Registrum De Visitatione Maneriorum Per Robertum Decanum: And Other Original Documents Relating to the Manors, and Churches Belonging to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London, in the Twelfth and Thirteenth CenturiesThese remarks upon the general advantage of anti quarian study having been premised, the Editor would apprise the reader of the particular conclusions, which he has drawn from the study of the documents here printed, and which he has endeavoured to a certain extent to embody in the Introduction, and which are these: that the Manorial system of England is of purely Anglo Saxon Origin, that the great mass of the population was bound to their lords by civil rather than by military service, that in the local customs of the Manors may be discovered the nature of the cultivation of the country, the different orders of society, and the relation in which they stood to each other, that one system of juris prudence prevailed, which Owed its origin, not to the will of the sovereign, but to the adjustment of rights acknowledged to exist between man and man, and that if the existence of law, and of right, and of well-defined duties is an evidence of civilisation, it may be fairly questioned, whether after the cessation of the Roman power and during the establishment of the anglo-saxon dominion England was ever inhabited by a barbarous and lawless mph.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.