villenage
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The villenage tenant of it was an astrarius.
From Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various
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 Bell, George
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
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
As a villein might be enfeoffed of freeholds, though they lay at the mercy of his lord, so a freeman might hold tenements in villenage.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
