A villein was a common type of serf in the middle ages. From LearnThat.org.
"villein" was real property and in the same case as land: also that when Parliament came to legislate so as to make lands in the American. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Almost certainly of villein stock, like the two grooms. From Wordnik.com. [A Rare Benedictine]
This must be some lone hand, a misused villein gone wild. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
The villein stretched out arms as formidably long as his legs. From Wordnik.com. [A Morbid Taste For Bones]
Was a runaway villein worth so much time and expense to him? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
I can think of three explanations for the “villein” claim in the Triads. From Wordnik.com. [Cadafael, King of Gwynedd] Reference
His right to the land, in fact, was not freehold, but tenure by villein socage. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
As a villein is an unfree peasant or serf, this is unlikely to be literally true. From Wordnik.com. [Cadafael, King of Gwynedd] Reference
A villein instinctively closing ranks with his kind against his lord? wondered Cadfael. From Wordnik.com. [A Rare Benedictine]
The first night of the nuptials of the daughter of his villein belonged to him without dispute. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
There's a man has come looking for you, he says he's hunting a runaway villein named Brand … '. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
I am new among these people, I heard of the kinsmen's land, that it was held by villein service. From Wordnik.com. [The Raven In The Foregate]
There's a man has come looking for you, he says he's hunting a runaway villein named Brand ... '. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
Only neither the villein nor the farm labourer starved, when the master was a man like Sir Ector. From Wordnik.com. [And People Complain About Political Undertones in Tolkien and Lewis] Reference
Brand had been a villein and landless in Northamptonshire, Hyacinth would be a craftsman and free in Shrewsbury. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
So would it be if the villein were to flee before his hoe by which he gains his livelihood, and with which he toils. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
The theft was a year ago, when FitzHamon received these candlesticks from Alard who made them, his villein, like me. From Wordnik.com. [A Rare Benedictine]
I do firmly believe, 'said Jerome virtuously,' that it is every man's duty to help you to reclaim your villein if he can. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
No question but the remotest villein hut and the poorest free holding in the parish would be buzzing with the news by now. From Wordnik.com. [A Morbid Taste For Bones]
The villein had no capital, and was simply an instrument, like the cattle of which he had charge, in the working of the estate. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
A villein, if Cadfael knew one when he saw one, with abilities above his station, and some private anguish, maybe more than one. From Wordnik.com. [Monk's Hood]
Brother Cadfael made good use of the time to survey the dead man's household, from John of Longwood to the youngest villein herdsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
The bereaved son revolved the matter in his mind, and asked point-blank and with sharp intent: 'He had not found our runaway villein?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
All the free men of Gwytherin came to the meeting next day, and their womenfolk and all the villein community came to the Mass beforehand. From Wordnik.com. [A Morbid Taste For Bones]
He has called into question whether Aelgar, who works for him, is villein or free, and has not asked of us, who know very well he is a free man. From Wordnik.com. [The Raven In The Foregate]
Or the alleged villein might himself sue out a writ of libertate probanda: and until trial of the case the lord could not seize the alleged villein. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
They traced their claims from the most ancient feudal times, when the lord was as much bound to maintain his villein in gross, as the villein was to work for the lord. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
A visitor comes from Northampton, seeking a runaway villein. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
"And is it really true that a villein with you can rise to be a noble?". From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
Question, 'Does the villein pass to the grantee as a villein in gross, or as a villein appendant to that acre?'. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
"` Would she not like better to be a villein scullion-maid, than to be the daughter of my noble Lord of Kent? '". From Wordnik.com. [Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century] Reference
After Jan's birth Bockel married the woman and bought her her freedom from the villein status that was hers by heredity. From Wordnik.com. [German Culture Past and Present] Reference
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