| Lords based their authority over other freeholders on two types of vassalage. |
| The pride of nobility would not have admitted unnoble freeholders to have shared in the most honourable of its privileges. |
| The village has a green, communally owned by the freeholders and stocks in the churchyard. |
| While it is difficult to quantify, the policies and attitudes of different freeholders have some effect on rental values. |
| Further, we see that the socman's tenure is distinguished from free tenure, socmen from freeholders. |
| The verderer was a judicial officer chosen in full county by the freeholders in the same manner as the coroner. |
