Takács Péter (szerk.): A jobbágylét dokumentumai az úrbérrendezés kori Szatmár vármegye Nyíri járásából - A nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum kiadványai 66. (Nyíregyháza, 2010)

A jobbágylét dokumentumai az úrbérrendezés kori Szatmár vármegye Nyíri járásából

and used. The landlord or his delegate who was present at the registration could correct the data if the commissioners wanted to group a part of the allodial or manorial lands leased by the villains among the socage tenures.

In parallel to the manual registration of the plot and land use in a table, the judge, the jurors and a few villains and serfs of the village were asked to answer nine principal questions (I—IX). They answered under oath. During the interrogation of the village, the regulation commissioners paid a special attention to the fourth (IV) principal question. With answering it in 19 sub-questions, the usufructs obtained in the fields of the village had to be particularized. Seven questions concerned the damages that affected the inhabitants and the lands of the village.

The regulation commissioners wrote down the villains’ answers regarding both the plots and the answers to the questions. They authenticated them with their signature and the official seal pressed into wax. The documents were sent to the office of the deputy county head.

In the office of the deputy county head, the socage tenure regulation committee classified the arable lands and the meadows by villages. They determined how large arable lands and meadows belonged to a whole unit of a plot, which had the same size in the entire country: it measured two Pozsony mérő (45,984 square feet). These data were entered in ink into the relevant cell of the printed terrier. It was also added in hand writing in which work type (harvest, vintage, mowing) the landlord could demand the double of the weekly corvée and also how many oxen the villain must put before the plough during the corvée. Hand writing was also used for entering when the village community could sell alcoholic beverages (wine, spirit, beer) for their own profit. It was also registered in handwriting if the villains could not be compelled to provide firewood or to cut reed since there was no forest or reed field. Finally it was entered into the printed terrier in handwriting if the villain was not allowed to keep a dairy cow because of the small size of the meadows and so the landlord could not demand butter.

The Tabella was inseparable from the printed terrier. All the landlords were listed in it by name together with his villains, cottagers and bordars broken down to settlements. After the names of the villains, the plot ratio and the attached arable lands and meadows (calculated in hold [0.57 hectares]) were entered in a table form just like the quantity of the annually due draught corvée or the foot corvée that substituted it, the rent to be paid for the land and the firewood or reed bunches to be cut and transported to the manor. The quantity of the hemp, flax or wool cloth that the landlord could demand was registered to a centesimal exactitude. Finally, the gifts of butter, capon, poultry and egg to be given to the kitchen of the landlord were noted.

The socage tenure regulation committee authenticated the Terrier they had prepared. The authenticated version was approved by the county assembly and verified the approval with the signature of the county recorder and the county seal. A copy of the Terrier was placed in the archives of the county, another copy was sent to the Socage Committee of the Council of Governor-General. A copy was given to the landlords. Finally, the socage tenure regulation commissioners took a copy of the authenticated Terrier approved by

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