The Social And Industrial History of Scotland From the Earliest Times to the Uni
The Social And Industrial History of Scotland From the Earliest Times to the Uni
James Mackinnon
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St. Clair Edmund and Gillemichel, his brother, their sons and daughters and all their progeny for the sum of three merks. Genealogies of serfs were 60 THE EARLY FEUDAL AGE kept like the stud book of horses in order to enable the proprietor to trace and reclaim this species of property. From such details it is a relief to turn to another kind of transaction, relative to the serfs — that of the purchase of their freedom and their consequent emancipation. They owed their freedom not so much to the... philanthropy of the church or society, as to the economic factors which in Scotland, as elsewhere, substituted a money rent for service, and to the necessities of the War of Independence which afforded them the opportunity of earning their freedom on the battle-field. As money became the more important element of wealth and medium of exchange it was in the interest of the superior, whether lay or cleric, to commute the services of the unfree for a money payment, to emanci- pate them and transform them into free farmers and free labourers.
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