Blount provides "under the heads of various places in which the land was situated, various curious tenures, and customs of manors, which he had come across in his study of records. It was meant both to amuse and instruct; and it does instruct, because it is a painstaking piece of work, taken from the original authorities, which preserved the memory of many old customs which were rapidly decaying when the book was written" - Holdsworth, History of English Law VI:611; Sweet & Maxwell, Legal Bibliography, I:398 (7); Wing, B3333. Engraved armorial bookplate of Herbert Wilson Greene.