villeinage
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The king or the prince who is enslaved by his conscience oweth the duties of villeinage to the worst and hardest of masters.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
Once elected, whether by the actual ceremony or by a survival of it, he assumed control over the tenants in villeinage and over the waste lands of the tribe.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
For one thing, the poll-tax was stopped, and the end of villeinage was hastened.
From The Rise of the Democracy by Joseph Clayton
It is not necessary for us further to notice the existence of villeinage or slavery in these kingdoms.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
The villeinage into which the peasants had been thrust back could not, indeed, endure long, because service unwillingly rendered is too expensive to be maintained.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
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