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Gavelkind and the Land Market in Somerden Hundred, Kent, 1550-1700
Gavelkind was the default system of land-holding in Kent from the early middle ages until the reform of property law in 1925-26. The research examines how far it still influenced the lives of landowners in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whether it was avoided using wills and …