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ERRATA AND ADDENDA.
VOLUME I.
P. 11. lin. 15. for Grece, read Greece.
p. 298. 1. for site ; I, read site, even if 1.
VOLUME 11.
p. 30. not. 21. A learned friend points out to me a passage of Herodotus,
(vn. 'AT.) which it is extremely interesting to compare with the words of my
ignorant Greek peasant.
p. 38. lin. 15. for Mahommedans, read Mohammedans.
86. 27. and 32. for Kalamydes, read Kalamyde.
221. 36. for trpvi, read irpwt.
285. 5. of not. 1. for Racolta, read Raccolta.
286. not. 2. (Compare Vol. 1. p. 117- not. 51.) The jus senile forms
a considerable title in all our old law-books, under the name of villenage.
We had not only serfs or villeins regardant, who went with the land; but
villeins in gross, who might be sold like any other chattels. (See Roi.t.e,
Abr. 11. 732. foil. Co. Litt. 116. 120. &c. Dyer, Rep. p. 48. b.) The
civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster did much to extinguish
this villenage, (as similar causes extinguished it in Italy much earlier).
Nevertheless it prevailed in. various parts of England under Elizabeth, and
a case of it occurred as late as the reign of James I. It has been observed
that, although the clergy tried to effect the enfranchisement of villeins belong-
ing to the laity, yet the Church still retained its own serfs in bondage. "The
holy fathers—had convinced the laity how dangerous a practice it was for one
Christian man to hold another in bondage : so that temporal men—were glad
to manumit all their villeins. But the said holy fathers, with the abbots and
priors, did not in like sort by theirs ; for they also had a scruple in conscience,
to impoverish and despoil the Church;-and so kept their villeins still."
Smith's Commonwealth, 111. 10. quoted by Blackstone, Com. Vol. 11.
p. 96. Compare Barrington, Observations on the more ancient Statutes,
P. 277.
VOLUME I.
P. 11. lin. 15. for Grece, read Greece.
p. 298. 1. for site ; I, read site, even if 1.
VOLUME 11.
p. 30. not. 21. A learned friend points out to me a passage of Herodotus,
(vn. 'AT.) which it is extremely interesting to compare with the words of my
ignorant Greek peasant.
p. 38. lin. 15. for Mahommedans, read Mohammedans.
86. 27. and 32. for Kalamydes, read Kalamyde.
221. 36. for trpvi, read irpwt.
285. 5. of not. 1. for Racolta, read Raccolta.
286. not. 2. (Compare Vol. 1. p. 117- not. 51.) The jus senile forms
a considerable title in all our old law-books, under the name of villenage.
We had not only serfs or villeins regardant, who went with the land; but
villeins in gross, who might be sold like any other chattels. (See Roi.t.e,
Abr. 11. 732. foil. Co. Litt. 116. 120. &c. Dyer, Rep. p. 48. b.) The
civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster did much to extinguish
this villenage, (as similar causes extinguished it in Italy much earlier).
Nevertheless it prevailed in. various parts of England under Elizabeth, and
a case of it occurred as late as the reign of James I. It has been observed
that, although the clergy tried to effect the enfranchisement of villeins belong-
ing to the laity, yet the Church still retained its own serfs in bondage. "The
holy fathers—had convinced the laity how dangerous a practice it was for one
Christian man to hold another in bondage : so that temporal men—were glad
to manumit all their villeins. But the said holy fathers, with the abbots and
priors, did not in like sort by theirs ; for they also had a scruple in conscience,
to impoverish and despoil the Church;-and so kept their villeins still."
Smith's Commonwealth, 111. 10. quoted by Blackstone, Com. Vol. 11.
p. 96. Compare Barrington, Observations on the more ancient Statutes,
P. 277.