Yes, that's what it means. This provision was necessary under the 1589 Cottages Act and subsequent legislation about the erection of cottages (often on the waste of the manor).
D.
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From: From: Local-History list on behalf of Hideaki Inui
Sent: Tue 7/18/2006 1:50 AM
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Subject: Lord of the soil
To all,
I found the sentence under-written in Quarter Sessions Order Book(1630s):
This Court taking the same into Consideration does find leave to the said
Elizabeth Weber to erect and set up a Cottage or house for habitation
there so as she first [obtain?] license from the Lord of the soil for the
purpose and to continue to the use of the poor of that place.
In this case, 'the Lord of the soil' means 'Lord of Manor'?
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