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NOW servile villeinage was historically rooted in customary tenure. The new economic conditions caused two major changes in this situation. First, a large amount of peasant land was withdrawn from the area of custom and was turned into leasehold. Secondly, customary tenure itself, without being legally enfranchised, is once more found without the taint of servility and becomes copyhold, liable to be held not merely by free men but by gentry.
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Hilton, R.H. (1969). The Evolution of Peasant Tenures: Leasehold. In: The Decline of Serfdom in Medieval England. Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00696-0_6
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