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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… one plough, leaving hide for tenant farming. There were 2 villeins and 3 bordars with 1 plough. At that time there were …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 14 serfs with 4 ploughs. The tenants were 26 socmen, 7 villeins, and 9 bordars, with 13 ploughs. In 1086 the manor …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… had been seised of him and of his ancestors, as their villeins. And the said Laurence stated he was a freeman and …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… was seised either of him nor of his brother Richard as villeins, and appealed to a jury. The Sheriff was ordered to …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… The jury present that Geoffrey de Grysle (Gresley) had two villeins in the vill of Morton, who held of him in … appeared in person, and the Bishop admitted that the two villeins in question came to his view of frankpledge of … in the same vill, and that Geoffrey had distrained the two villeins in question to come to the Bishop's view, when they …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… that with the exception of Ralph de la Boure they were villeins of Edmund the King's brother, and the Newe Rydinge …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… tenements. Six of the tenants named had, I think, been villeins originally. By which is meant she had entered as …