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A History of the County of Sussex
… of the Shortsfield estate, was attempting to treat as serfs tenants who claimed to be free. 21 At the end of the …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… the demesne and 3½ worked by 5 villeins and 3 bordars. Two serfs worked on the demesne. There were 20 a. of meadow and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of the house, frequently selling wood and manumitting serfs on his own authority. William de Ingwarby, the lay …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… custom of providing a feast at Christmas for his men and serfs at Walberswick, on condition of providing a resident …
A History of the County of York
… be repelled, who raised laughter to the injury of silence. Serfs were not to have manumission, nor were lands to be sold …
A History of the County of York
… with the rents and services of the free tenants arid serfs, ordaining that those three vills Newton ( que nunc …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Stoke's time seasons had been good, much wood sold, many serfs manumitted and extreme parsimony exercised at the …
A History of the County of Chester
… 1390s that 'the rents and services which their tenants and serfs used to pay have been irrecoverably diminished and …