Are there inspectors to see that demesne owners comply?
The vendor has not agreed to sell any portion of his demesne land.
No demesne lands were included in the property sold, which comprised tenanted lands and some 91 acres of untenanted lands.
The first article touches demesne copyholds.
The majority of the manor's arable land was held by copyhold, and the data relate almost exclusively to copyhold land, as opposed to freehold or demesne leasehold.
The demesnes had meadow and pasture.
The protest was about compulsory work to repair public roads as well as private roads and avenues in gentry demesnes that was exacted from agricultural labourers for no wages.
The answer must lie beyond the traditional perceptions of what the custom of ancient demesne entailed, and of what the criteria for ancient demesne status were.
