Even in villeinage we would have married and been thankful. From Wordnik.com. [A Rare Benedictine]
English law was villeinage, that the Statute of Tenures enacted in. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The total abolition of all villeinage (forced labour) and serfdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
Scotland they had just been emancipated from the status of villeinage. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
'I love you all the more,' said Hyacinth, 'for viewing my villeinage as past. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
For one thing, the poll-tax was stopped, and the end of villeinage was hastened. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
This has been the process wherever (the name of) villeinage or slavery has been successfully abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
The threat to haul him back to villeinage would be enough to make the lad take to his heels, the faster the better. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
This article explores the obstacles to such litigation, challenging the claim that servile villeinage acted to restrict villagers' choice of court. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
I'd talked with him only once, but he took me so for a true man he'd hear no wrong of me, nor have me run to earth and dragged back into villeinage. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
Cruel reaction ensued: Richard and Parliament annulled the charters; terrible repression followed, and a deliberate effort was made to restore villeinage. From Wordnik.com. [1377-89] Reference
Moreover I have given and granted to the aforesaid Lord the King, Castle of Restormell and the villeinage in demesne, wood and meadows, and the whole Town of. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
Their inhabitants, in spite of ascetic regulations, found that life was none so hard -- at least in comparison with that of serfdom or villeinage; luxuries were not less available than to the laity. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Most men of these local villages, tied to the soil by villeinage but also by inclination, and likely to marry within a very few miles 'radius, tended to have a close clan resemblance and a strong clan loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Thief]
Mile-End, and promised to abolish villeinage in England. From Wordnik.com. [A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII] Reference
The question of villeinage and serfage finds no place in it. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
Meanwhile, one great portion of our villeinage in our larger towns we have much mitigated. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
It is noteworthy that some chose one alternative, some the other, not finding villeinage intolerable. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference
For some years the emancipation of villeinage had, for reasons of convenience, been gradually extending. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Black Death and the question of villeinage which resulted from it, had already provided many elements of disturbance. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
In the seventy years which had intervened since the last peasant rising, villeinage had died naturally away before the progress of social change. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
But besides what belonged thus exclusively to the lord of the manor, there was a great deal more that was legally described as held in villeinage. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Socialism] Reference
The fathers early enacted that there should be neither bond slaves nor villeinage amongst us except captives taken in just wars and those condemned judicially to serve. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time] Reference
For while villeinage prevailed in England -- while feudalism, the maxims of the old Saxon Constitution, and Danish and Norman customs, were yet the law of the land, the. From Wordnik.com. [Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis,] Reference
Boeckh and some other eminent authors suppose him to have abolished villeinage and conferred upon the poor tenants a property in their lands, annulling the seigniorial rights of the landlord. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference
= -- Since the insurrection of the peasants in = 1381 = (see p. 268) villeinage had to a great extent been dying out, in consequence of the difficulty felt by the lords in enforcing their claims. From Wordnik.com. [A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII] Reference
Through various grades of slavery, serfdom, villeinage, and through various organizations of castes and guilds, the industrial organization has been modified and developed up to the modern system. From Wordnik.com. [What Social Classes Owe to Each Other] Reference
In spite of the prayers and resolutions and acts of the early fathers, a form of slavery grew up here, but it was milder than the English villeinage: it resembled apprenticeship except in the duration. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time] Reference
Or was he excluded from the agreement, conceded to Master Bonel as manservant in villeinage for life? ". From Wordnik.com. [Monk's Hood]
"Yea," said he, "that wot I well, that these are of the kin of the daughters of the horse-leech; but how shall they slake their greed, seeing that as thou sayest villeinage shall be gone?. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson] Reference
Not serfdom or villeinage. From Wordnik.com. [Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?] Reference
Slavery became villeinage. From Wordnik.com. [Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis,] Reference
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