Bibliographical references included in "Notes" ([187]-205)-Bibliography: p. ([234]-253).
Contents
1. The web of open-field life -- 2. Land hunger, borough rights, and the power to tax -- 3. The secrets of the corporation of this town of Sudbury -- 4. "It is ordered by the court" -- 5. Watertown on the Charles -- 6. "It is ordered and agreed by this town" -- 7. "All liberties as other towns have" -- 8. "We shall be judged by men of our own choosing" -- 9. "Interest in this town of Marlborough" -- 10. The origin and stability of a New England town.