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A History of the County of Somerset
… amounts of pasture. There were also two small vineyards. Villeins paid three quarters of the rental and their works …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and the tenanted land was held almost equally by villeins who owed fixed labour services and by rentpayers. 20 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… The most numerous class consisted of those described as villeins, of whom there were 10 at Sunbury, 14 at Kempton, …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 3½ ploughs, but Picot de Percy then had one plough and 11 villeins had three. There were also 3 fisheries. The value of … for 3 ploughs, but Niel Fossard then had one plough and 6 villeins and 4 bordars had three. The estate was worth £1 in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 2 ploughs, and on the remainder of the manor there were 6 villeins and 8 bordars with 4 ploughs. This estate had 6 a. … On the demesne there were 3 serfs and 2 ploughs, while 3 villeins and 6 bordars with 2 ploughs farmed the rest of the … were 3 serfs and 1 plough, and elsewhere there were 5 villeins and 5 bordars with 2 ploughs. There were on this …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… partly in Swaffham Prior. The prioress had no land held by villeins, but 22 a. held, with 17 messuages, by freeholders. … most others having 6-10 a., but only two of the Burghs' villeins held over 10 a. each. Villeins' services were not heavy, comprising harvest boons, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The other manors included only c. 100 a. occupied by villeins and bondmen, and 9 a. possessed by cottagers. Of Ely's portion in 1279 six villeins had 5 a. each, the rest being then ascribed to 16 'free sokemen'. In 1319 the priory's sokemen and villeins were represented by 19 customary tenants, besides …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a. of demesne and lordship over nine tenants, some of them villeins. 71 In 1330 William Gosfeld held for life 88 a. of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… had been parcelled out in peasant holdings. Sixty-three villeins of Swavesey manor each held half a yardland ( c. 15 … 8 a. of fen, besides the Eye meadow, which was let to the villeins for 8. Rents of free tenants were worth 10 and of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… by 2 serfs with 2 ploughs. On the rest of the estate 6 villeins and 8 bordars had 3 ploughs, making a total of 5 … were occupied. On the rest of the estate there were 5 villeins and 2 bordars with 2 ploughs. There were 30 a. each …