| It is known to have been held by the Hathaway family from at least 1543, as part of copyhold property granted then to John Hathaway. |
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| Broadly, over half of English tenants held their land by copyhold, that is by customary tenures involving low rents. |
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| In Hoyvík, one family has held the copyhold for more than 400 years, first for the whole farm and later for half of it. |
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| This was first achieved in 1802. The farm Hoyvíksgarður was then again divided into two equally sized parts, one half being a copyhold to the Chief of Police and Judge jointly. |
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| By around 1400 serfdom was virtually extinct in England, replaced by the form of tenure called copyhold. |
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| In 1500 about 12,000 peasants owned farms, about 18,000 were copyholding peasants on crown lands, and about 30,000 were copyhold tenants of lands belonging to the church or the nobles. |
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| There was no equivalent of the English system of copyhold, which provided a heritable tenancy for many English counterparts of the Scots who were cleared from their farms. |
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| On 9 May 1781, when Samuel junior was admitted to copyhold land, John Henshaw and his brother-in-law George Walford were the homagers present at the court. |
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