villenage

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This increase of villenage morally depressed the peasantry, and widened still further the breach between the yeomanry and the gentry.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

Serfdom and villenage, distinctive features of, i. 197-200.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

The beginning of the seventeenth century is the period usually referred to as the date of the extinction of personal villenage.

From Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 by Various

A copyholder without legal remedy may seem little better than a tenant in mere villenage, except in name.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

I cannot presume to conjecture in what degree voluntary manumission is to be reckoned among the means that contributed to the abolition of villenage.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry