copyholder
Example Sentences
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It extended the franchise to the copyholder, and to the farmer paying 50 pounds rent, in the counties; it gave the towns a uniform 10 pounds household franchise.
From Short History of Wales by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir
This copyholder was undoubtedly the descendant of the Welsh serf of mediaeval times.
From Short History of Wales by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir
The last was practically the counterpart of the mediæval English copyholder.
From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort
He drove a delivery wagon for a grocer, ushered at a theater, was even a copyholder in the proofroom of a newspaper.
From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod
The rise of the copyholder from a state of uncertainty to certainty of tenure appears to have been very gradual.
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