sentences:  A tenant – or mesne lord – who held land in this way was legally known as a "copyholder".The privileges granted to each tenant, and the exact services he was to render to the lord of the manor and/or Lord Paramount in return for them, were described in the roll or book kept by the steward, who gave a copy of the relevant entry to the tenant.Consequently, these tenants were afterwards called copyholders, in contrast to freeholders.