copyholders

Such tenants came to be known as copyholders, because the proof of their customary tenure was found in the manor court rolls, from which a copy was taken to serve as a title.

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904

The heart of the question was the proposition that there should be no taxation without representation; upon which principle it was necessary to observe only that many individuals in England, such as copyholders and leaseholders, and many communities, such as Manchester and

The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England Carl Lotus Becker 1909

As time went on the common lands were closed, no boundary of custom defended the freeholder, the poor remnants of villein tenure (now called "copyholders", because they held by right of the copy of the roll of the manor) dwindled as a class, and when the industrial revolution had come in to complete the business, it is just to regard agricultural England generally -- with many exceptions and many qualifications due to the complexity of a large society -- as a congeries of large estates, each of several thousand acres, and possessed by a class of anything between 9000 and 20,000 families.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Had the modern market economy evolved naturally, from societies with widespread ownership by copyholders, cottagers and town artisans, and no restraints existed on free association by the lower orders, industrialization would probably have occurred in societies of small owners cooperatively pooling their own capital for self-managed production.

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In every village of England had been small freeholders, copyholders and cottagers, all of whom had varying degrees of possession in the common lands which were administered by a manorial court of the village.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

The twelve pound occupation franchise was new, [119] and the qualification for copyholders and leaseholders was reduced from £10 to

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

In the counties the forty-shilling freehold franchise, with some limitations, was retained; but the voting privilege was extended to all leaseholders and copyholders of land renting for as much as £10

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

In England and Wales the county franchise was guaranteed to men whose freehold was of the value of forty shillings a year, to copyholders and leaseholders of the annual value of £5, and to householders whose rent amounted to not less than £12 a year. (p.  084)

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

Political power was still confined to the magnates of the kingdom, the townsfolk who were able to pay a £10 annual rental, and the well-to-do copyholders and leaseholders of rural districts.

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

The fourth and last sort of people in England are day-labourers, poor husbandmen, and some retailers (which have no free land) copyholders, and all artificers, as tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, brickmakers, masons, etc.

Of Degrees of People in the Commonwealth of Elizabethan England. Chapter I. [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5 1909