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 ever be repealed, the law of villenage revives in its full force.'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 Chambers, William

From so disadvantageous a condition as this of villenage it may cause some surprise that the peasantry of England should have ever emerged.

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

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

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 Hallam, Henry