villenage
Example Sentences
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He said: 'If the statute of Charles II. ever be repealed, the law of villenage revives in its full force.'
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 by Chambers, William
All this practice was based upon the common law proceedings when a claim was made of villenage.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various
In the days of the most perfect villenage, they had, doubtless, eaten the bread of idleness, and claimed it as a right.
From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various
The purchasers under these alienations had occasion for labourers; and these would be free servants in respect of such employers, though in villenage to their original lord.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
This increase of villenage morally depressed the peasantry, and widened still further the breach between the yeomanry and the gentry.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
