villenage
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He said: 'If the statute of Charles II. ever be repealed, the law of villenage revives in its full force.'
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 by William Chambers
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 Henry Hallam
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
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 Henry Hallam
The villenage tenant of it was an astrarius.
From Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various
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