serfage

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We have had to examine its classes or divisions in their relation to freedom, personal slavery, and praedial serfage.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

Like all the greater revolutions of society, the advance from this mere serfage was a silent one; indeed its more galling instances of oppression seem to have slipped unconsciously away.

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard

There were no lords of manors, no feudalism, no serfage of any kind.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)

Part of these gain a miserable pittance as agricultural labourers, and live in a condition infinitely worse than serfage.

From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir

Cancel charters of manumission as the council might, serfage was henceforth a doomed and perishing thing.

From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by Green, John Richard