(87) The Cecils were successively Masters of the Court of Wards and Liveries and their job was to "survey and dispose of all and every of our Wards, Idiots, and Lunatiques, and respectively, of their Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Chattels, goods, properties, interests, rights, titles, Intrusions, Arrearages and Mean-rates, and all Liveries, Ouster le maines, and ancient Mannors, and all
Advowsons, and presentations of Churches, Herriots, Reliefes, Coppyholds, Woods, Mines, and Quarries, of any of our Wards, and of all duties belonging, or to belong to us by reason of any Tenure": Ley, A5r.
Nevertheless, the relevant standardized forms clearly change over time; no real estate lawyer today knows much about the dizzying array of "incorporeal hereditaments" that Blackstone described (e.g.,
advowsons, dignities, and corodies), whereas Blackstone knew nothing of condominium restrictions and time-shares.
The entries cover all those things one is assumed to know such as the meaning of enclosures,
advowsons, ridings, militia, saints' days, window tax, ossuaries, heraldry (one of the author's main interests), Martello towers, glebe, boroughs and so on and on.