See also:

• COTTER, COTTAR, or COTTIER

COTTER, COTTAR, or COTTIER  , a word derived from the Latin cola, a cot or cottage, and used to describe a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man who occupies a cottage and cultivates a small See also:

• PLOT
• PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

plot of See also:

• LAND

land . This word is often employed to translate the cotarius of Domesday See also:

• BOOK

Book, a class whose exact status has been the subject of some discussion, and is still a See also:

• MATTER

matter of doubt . According to Domesday the cotarii were comparatively few, numbering less than seven thousand, and were scattered unevenly throughout See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, being principally in the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern counties; they were occupied either in cultivating a small plot of land, or in working on the holdings of the See also:

• VILLANI, GIOVANNI (c. 1245-1348)

villani . Like the villani, among whom they were frequently classed, their economic See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition may be described as " See also:

• FREE

free in relation to every one except their See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord." See F . W . See also:

• MAITLAND (MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON), WILLIAM
• MAITLAND, EAST
• MAITLAND, EDWARD (1824-1897)
• MAITLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1850-1906)
• MAITLAND, SIR RICHARD (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)

Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond (See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, [897) ; and P .