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
In the seventy years which had intervened since the last peasant rising, villeinage had died naturally away before the progress of social change.
From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green
The facts are all against them; these showing it a scheme of villeinage, more oppressive than the European serfdom of the Middle Ages.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
And the pretence at proselytising, with its mongrel mixture of Christianity and superstition, did not make this Transatlantic villeinage a whit less irksome to endure.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
