Show ORIGIN OF THE MANOR under william the norman the billage system of saxon and norse freeholders was practically replaced by the manors with which he rewarded hundreds and thousands of his barons and knights hta after the conquest on quest of england the manor might comprise one or more villages dr a wide range of moor and forest sp ariely inhabited but for its pos assion the lord of the manor owed ervice service and certain payments of money or property to his sovereign md in return had llad practical bover over the people of his domain his were the rights of pit and gallows 3 to drown any woman and hang any man whom he might adjudge guilty under the stern stem draconian code of a period when thief and poacher heretic and were fortunate if they escaped with mutilation or a whipping that was scarcely to bo be preferred to dearil knobil nobility of the trades by charles charlea winslow hall in national magazine |