For when the ancient kings of this realm, who had all England in demesne, did confer great quantities of lands upon some great personages with liberty to parcel the lands out to other inferior tenants, reserving such duties and services as they thought convenient ; and to keep courts where they might redress misdemeanors within their precincts, punish offences committed by their tenants, and decide and debate controversies arising within their jurisdiction ; these courts were termed courts baron." '

This jurisdiction was the very essence, so to speak, of a Manor, for the same great authority also says, that, " A Manor in these days [the age of Elizabeth, in which Coke wrote] siguifieth the jurisdiction and royalty incorporate rather than the land or scite."^

An old English Manor may be said to have consisted of: --

1. Demesne lands, which were the Lords personal demesne. These were of two kinds, first, the Manor- House and the land immediately about, or adjacent to, it, which the Lord himself cultivated for his own maintenance, or demised to others to be cultivated for that purpose, on terms of years, or for the life of the tenants ; and secondly, the uncultivated lands of the manor including those allowed as common lands for pasturage, &c., to the freehold tenants generally, which were termed the "wasted lands," or more usually the " Lords waste," not because they were worth nothing, but because they were untilled.

2. The services, rents, and duties, reserved to the Lord upon the original freehold leases to the freehold tenants of the manor.