1 gen 1671 anni - surrender with straw

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A tenant was said to surrender an estate when he relinquished his interest in copyhold lands, yielding them directly to the lord of the manor, or via the lord to another person. The piece of straw was a symbol of the crops the land was capable of producing. 1545 <i>accordinge unto a surrender which I haue given upe with a strawe into the hands of Richard Mawde,</i> Shelf (Crossley8). Its importance is explicit in the following Chancery case: 1671 <i>Remembers the surrender with a straw into the hands of Henry Haigh ... all was upon the delivery of that very straw,</i> Marsden (G-A).

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