The Family of Cadenhead (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Had a territorial origin, and it is in Ettrick Forest, in Selkirkshire, that the locality is found from which it had been adopted. The Forest, as it was commonly called. Was a Royal domain as far back as distinct history reaches. Its divisions were called F orest-steads, and were occupied, subject to the Royal rights, by tenants, for agriculture and pasturage, at rents payable partly in money and partly in cattle. These occupiers were called kindly tenants. And they seem to have enjoyed fixity of tenure. The Forest itself, and sometimes single steads or groups Of steads, were often granted by the Crown to individuals, but this did not disturb the kindly tenants in their holdings. The dona tories of the Crown only enjoyed the right to.

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