villeinage
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Yea," said he, "that wot I well, that these are of the kin of the daughters of the horse-leech; but how shall they slake their greed, seeing that as thou sayest villeinage shall be gone?
From A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson by William Morris
The charter that contains this enactment treats of villeinage also, and orders that whoever has a man for sale within the limits of the viscounty shall fix the price, and shall not change it afterwards.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
Husbandry land held in villeinage was inherited according to the custom of its manor as administered in the lords manorial court.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly
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
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