| All villeins and cottars in the Seven Kingdoms gather to celebrate the successful harvests of the summer seasons and to prepare for the coming winter. |
| For land-hungry crofters and cottars these estates became potent symbols of land deliberately left underdeveloped and kept out of circulation. |
| Though not free men, they were above the bordars and cottars who held less land, and well above the slaves, who had been numerous in Saxon England. |
| All that could be carried off was taken, all that could not was wasted by the fires they kindled, even onto the humblest grain store-house of the poor cottars. |
| The college has published a PDF version of the 19th century Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands report. |
