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Copyholder

From British Culture

A copyhold is "a form of land tenure, so called because the holder had a copy of the record of his holding in the manorial role. [...] 10 Pound copyholders - those with land worth 10 Pound annually - were given the vote in 1832 and 5 Pound copyholders in 1867."


Source:

Kenyon, J.P., Dictionary of British History, Ware: Wordsworth, 1981, 92.