villeinage
Example Sentences
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But besides what belonged thus exclusively to the lord of the manor, there was a great deal more that was legally described as held in villeinage.
From Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett
Thus, in the first half of the sixteenth century, the old serfdom which still existed in a very harsh form in many provinces was mitigated, and villeinage substituted.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
For one thing, the poll-tax was stopped, and the end of villeinage was hastened.
From The Rise of the Democracy by Joseph Clayton
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
The fathers early enacted that there should be neither bond slaves nor villeinage amongst us except captives taken in just wars and those condemned judicially to serve.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
