villenage
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The condition of villenage, at least in later times, was perfectly relative; it formed no distinct order in the political economy.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
To people imbued with ideas of feudalism the way of escape from villenage seemed to be not independence, but a new reversion to it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
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 Henry Hallam
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
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 Henry Hallam
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