villenage

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The tenements held in villenage of the lord of a manor, at least where they consisted of a messuage or dwelling-house, are often called astra in our older books and court-rolls.

From Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various

All this practice was based upon the common law proceedings when a claim was made of villenage.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various

And thus it will be found in the history of nations, that, whenever population has reached that density in the temperate zones, serfdom, villenage, or slavery, whatever it has been called, has disappeared.

From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson

From so disadvantageous a condition as this of villenage it may cause some surprise that the peasantry of England should have ever emerged.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

Seems to me that villenage is not extinct, even in this colonial and democratic community.'

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf