Sentence example with the word 'villeins'

villeins

Last update: September 12, 2015


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" Villeins," instead of free-holders, formed the most numerous class of the population.   [Please select]

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This latter class, under the Norman name of villeins, became numerous after the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century.   [Please select]

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In time the villeins generally obtained the privilege of paying a fixed money rent, in place of labor, and their condition gradually improved.   [Please select]

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At present the condition of the common people, who are but villeins and serfs, is well-nigh unbearable.   [Please select]

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The serfs, or villeins, were the laborers who cultivated the ground.   [Please select]

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The greater part of this servile class were villeins or farm laborers (S150).   [Please select]

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