villeinage
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The rebels at first demanded no more than that Richard should declare villeinage abolished, and that all feudal dues and services should be commuted for a rent of fourpence an acre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
The question of villeinage and serfage finds no place in it.
From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green
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
In the new French possessions, villeinage and servitude were abolished, with a haste and recklessness which was intended to win the people to the new dominion.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
The institution of villeinage is last mentioned in a commission of Queen Elizabeth, 1574, directing Lord Burleigh and others in certain counties to compound with all such bondmen or bondwomen for their manumission and freedom.
From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson
