What tenure did they hold  Definition  in this article from the th and th centuries of small prosperous farmer Im wondering does anybody know what tenure they held their land under I am doing Google searches for Yeomen Tenures Maitland Coke Littleton and so forth but I cannot find any information about their tenure Free socage Tenant in Capite In a nutshell I am finding in the sixteenth century men referred to as yeomen but I am also finding that the same manor had no tenants serving under specified tenures Consequently if I can find out what tenures they were granted land on I can argue strongly that the person who termed these men Yeomen was misrepresenting the reality in terms which he obviously understood better Id be very grateful for any reading or help on this That misrepresentation and other factors indicate it is a misrepresentation does have quite significant consequences of our understanding of that past Thanks