villein

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The farm was cultivated partly by the work of these hired servants, partly by the services owed by the villeins.

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At the latter date besides seventy-three villeins, bordars and serfs there were forty cervisarii, a species of unfree tenants who rendered their custom in the form of beer.

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Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage.

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A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.

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In the times of the Carolingians the small and scattered towns and villages of western Europe, particularly of France, were inhabited mainly by serfs and villeins, i.e., by a dependent rather than an independent population.

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