villenage
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Serfdom and villenage, distinctive features of, i. 197-200.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
Villenage.—Can any of your readers inform me at what period villenage became extinct in this kingdom?
From Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
The beginning of the seventeenth century is the period usually referred to as the date of the extinction of personal villenage.
From Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 by Various
These are, first, the servitude or villenage of the peasantry, and their gradual emancipation from that condition; and, secondly, the continual increase of commercial intercourse with foreign countries.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
Much reference was made to the ancient laws of villenage, or semi-slavery, in Britain.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 by William Chambers
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