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To the two former Essays, on 'The English Village Community' and 'The Tribal System in Wales,' is now at last added in this volume a third on 'Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law.'
In the first Essay an attempt was made to approach the early Anglo-Saxon evidence from the point of view of the Manorial system, and mainly by tracing back its connection with the open field system of agriculture - the shell, so to speak, in which it had all along apparently lived.
The object of this third Essay in the trilogy is to approach the Anglo-Saxon laws from the point of view of tribal custom.
As a preliminary to this attempt, a detailed study of Cymric tribal custom was made in the intermediate Essay in the belief that the knowledge so gained might be used as a clue to the understanding of survivals of tribal custom in the laws o
