Seebohm's Tribal System in Wales

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Seebohm's Tribal System in Wales
W J William James Ashley
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. . cultivated by villani of Aberffraw^^^ occupying four carucates, of Trefcastell ("the farm homestead of the Maerdref") with one carucate attached to it, and of Garthey (some fourteen little gardens of cottiers). In the same larger portion were also the holdings of the "free tenants," who appear as four sets of heredes^ each set called a wele (literally "a bed"). The smaller portion of the manor, on the contrary, was exclusively occupied by " villeins," arranged in three Digitized by Google N...o. 2.] SEEBOHM'S TRIBAL SYSTEM IN WALES, 313 groups or " hamlets." All the villeins were subject to money rents, to heavy payments in kind, and to the performance of a large number of day-works ; while but little was due from the free tenants except money rents. Moreover, the tenure of the villeins, both on the Maerdref and on the outlying hamlets, was " of the nature of tref- gevery^^^ />., it involved some sort of group responsibility for dues.
The use of this term serves to identify their position with that of the prince's aillts (to be spoken of later) as described in the Welsh Codes ; though in the case of the aillts the feature of their position on which most stress is laid is the "regulation" by which equal division of the land was brought about within the group, with no recognition of individual claims to inheritance.


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