0 an owner of a particular building or piece of land --
1 someone who owns the freehold on a building or piece of land: --
Of course tenant farmers and their small freeholder allies were not the only county voters, but it was the farmers who predominated.
Table 3 clearly shows the different arrangements made by tenant farmers and freeholders.
In this respect there was no difference between tenant farmers and freeholders.
However, it is clear that customary tenants, even very small ones, were given as much consideration as freeholders.
The pensions of freeholders were in most cases two to three times larger, measured in amounts of corn per pensioner.
The socio-economic situation of crown tenants was similar to that of freeholders.
Relations with local freeholders were good enough to enable him to hunt on their land.
Possibly as a result, it was more common among estate tenants to agree a retirement contract with a non-relative than it was among freeholders.