Editing Copyhold (section)

==Principles==
The privileges granted to each tenant, and the exact services he was to render to the [[lord of the manor]] and/or [[lord paramount]] in return for them, were described in the roll or book kept by the [[Steward (office)|steward]], who gave a copy of the relevant entry to the tenant. Consequently, these tenants were afterwards called copyholders, in contrast to [[Freehold (law)|freeholders]].<ref>Bland, W., ''Enclosure of Commons and Waste Lands, formerly in the townships of Belper, Duffield, Hazelwood, Heage, Holbrooke, Turnditch, and elsewhere in the old Parish of Duffield'', {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081207011505/http://www.jjb.uk.com/enclosure/enclosure.htm#five jjb.uk.com]}}</ref> The actual term "copyhold" is first recorded in 1483, and "copyholder" in 1511–1512.<ref>{{OED|copyhold, copyholder }} {{subscription required}}</ref> The specific rights and duties of copyholders varied greatly from one manor to another and many were established by custom. Initially, some works and services to the lord were required of copyholders (four days' work per year for example), but these were commuted later to a rent equivalent. Each manor custom laid out rights to use various resources of the land such as wood and pasture, and numbers of animals allowed on the common. Copyholds very commonly required the payment of a type of death duty called an [[heriot]] to the lord of the manor upon the decease of the copyholder.