A treatise of gavelkind, both name and thing. Shewing the true etymologie and derivation of the one, the nature, antiquity, and original of the other. With sundry emergent observations, both pleasant and profitable to be known of Kentish-men and others, especially such as are studious, either of the ancient custome, or the common law of this kingdome. By (a well-willer to both) William Somner.

Title

A treatise of gavelkind, both name and thing. Shewing the true etymologie and derivation of the one, the nature, antiquity, and original of the other. With sundry emergent observations, both pleasant and profitable to be known of Kentish-men and others, especially such as are studious, either of the ancient custome, or the common law of this kingdome. By (a well-willer to both) William Somner.

Author

Somner, William, 1598-1669.

Publication

London :: printed by R. and W. Leybourn for the authour, and are to be sold by John Crooke at the Ship, and Daniel White at the Seven Stars in St. Pauls Church-yard,

1660.

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Subject terms

Land tenure -- England -- Kent -- Early works to 1800.

Feudal law -- England -- Kent -- Early works to 1800.

Gavelkind -- Early works to 1800.

Kent (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800.

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"A treatise of gavelkind, both name and thing. Shewing the true etymologie and derivation of the one, the nature, antiquity, and original of the other. With sundry emergent observations, both pleasant and profitable to be known of Kentish-men and others, especially such as are studious, either of the ancient custome, or the common law of this kingdome. By (a well-willer to both) William Somner." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93553.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE.
• The Postscript.
• alphabet
• Errata.
• GAVELKYND.
  • PROPOSITION I.
  • PROPOSITION II.
  • PROPOSITION III.
    • Whether the Writ, De Rationabili parte bonorum, lie at the Common Law, or by Custome.
  • PROPOSITION IV.
  • PROPOSITION V.
    • Reasons and authorities to prove that Gavelkind-lands in Kent, are not, nor were anciently de∣viseable by Custome.
    • The learned Counsels arguments in behalf of the Custome.
    • The Reply to the fore-going Arguments, by such as stand in opposition to the Custome.
    • Argument.
    • Argument.
    • Argument.
    • Argument.
• An APPENDIX OF Such Muniments (viz. Charters, and other Escripts) as are quoted in the precedent Discourse, with refe∣rence to this place for transcription.
  • Charta pervetusta de terrâ ad Censum concessâ.
  • Charta Prioris consimilis.
  • Alia Charta de terrâ ad Gablum concessâ.
  • Charta de terrâ ad Gavelikendam con∣cessâ.
  • Apographum processus litis inter Burgam de Bending, & Priorem & Conventum Ecclesiae Cantuar.
  • Carta de terrâ ad Gavelikende concessâ.
  • Charta pirori consimilis.
  • Alia Charta consimilis.
  • Alia consimilis Charta Hospitali data.
  • Inquisitio de terris & tenementis quae Isa∣bella de Monte alto tenuit de Priore ec∣clesiae Christi Cantuariae.
  • Servitia Tenentium de Rokinge ad reddi∣tum posita.
  • Relaxatio servitiorum & consuetudinum Tenentium de Mepham, pro annuo red∣ditu solvendo.
  • Breve Regis (Wmi jmi) pro terris monaste∣rii S. Augustini Cant. alienatis recupe∣randis.
  • Charta W. Regis jmi de restitutione ablato∣rum in Episcopatibus & Abbatiis totius Angliae.
  • Breve Regis in subsidium Villanorum Ab∣batis S. Augustini Cantuar. se gravari querentium in taxatione 10mae & 15mae.
  • Charta de Homagio facto pro terrâ de Gavelkind, sicut de Villenagio.
  • Chirographum pervetustum de Nuptiis contrahendis, & Dote constitenâ.
  • Testamentum Ethelstani Etheling, filii regis Ethelredi, quo (inter alia) contulit Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariae, manerium de Holingburne, anno Christi 1015.
  • Charta Libertatum Ecclesiae Christi Can∣tuar. concessar. per Regem Henricum primum.
  • Thus Englished in the same Charter.
  • Charta consimilium libertatum Ecclesiae S. Augustini▪ Cantuar. concessarum per S. Edwardum Regem.
  • Epistola Gaufridi Supprioris & Monachor. Ecclesiae Cantuariensis ad Regem Henri∣cum 2. de lite inter eos & Baldvinum Archiepisc.
  • Donatio Wolgithae de manerio de Stisted, A. D. 1046.
  • Donatio terrarum apud Apoldre, Orpinton, Palstre, Wer∣horne, Wittrisham, ecclesiae Christi Cantuariae per Aedsium Presbyterum, de consensu Cnuti Regis & Aelf∣gifae Reginae, ann. 1032.
• imprimatur
• A Table, or Index OF The principal Contents.