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.

3. The reversion of those jjarts of the demesne lands granted for lives or terms of years, and of those escheated to the Lord in the case of freehold tenants dying intestate and without heirs.

4. Jurisdiction in a Court-Baron, and the rents and services of the freehold tenants liable to escheat and owing attendance as suitors at the Court. This Court was a necessary incident of a manor, and without it, and at least two suitors, no manor could exist. The Lord, or his Steward always presided, no one else could hold it. The freehold tenants were the judges of fact, just as jurors are in ordinary Courts ; thus no

1 (.'iteii in Cruise on Dignities, 24. 2 Ibid.

man could be tried except by bis peers. It was an absolute necessity that it should be held within the Manor limits, for if held outside, its proceedings were null and void. Hence it was usually held in or near the Manor House.