villenage
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From henceforward we find little notice taken of villenage in parliamentary records, and there seems to have been a rapid tendency to its entire abolition.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
The purchasers under these alienations had occasion for labourers; and these would be free servants in respect of such employers, though in villenage to their original lord.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
And when these had lasted a considerable time in any manor, the villenage of the latter, without any manumission, would have expired by desuetude.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
The tenements in villenage, whether by law or usage, were never separated from the lordship, while its domain was reduced to a smaller extent through subinfeudations, sales, or demises for valuable rent.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
In the days of the most perfect villenage, they had, doubtless, eaten the bread of idleness, and claimed it as a right.
From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various
