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The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey
… the reign of King Edward the Third after the Conquest, the villeins of Dernehale and Ouer conspired against their lords, … is called Harebache Crose, at which a great number of villeins had taken refuge together, and they laid a serious … in close confinement in shackles, as though they were villeins, and forced them to serve him in all villein …
The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey
… their iron plough-shares; and the King said to them: "As villeins you have come, and as villeins you shall return." And after this the abbot threw …
The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey
… villeinages, together with services of free tenants and of villeins, villeins and the profits thereof, advowries, wards, reliefs … services of free tenants of the same manor, villeinages, villeins and their profits, wards, reliefs, escheats, rents, …
The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey
… of the court of the said manor, and of the goods of villeins at death [ decedentium] there, worth 60 s. a year. … is one mill there worth 6, 12 s. 4 d. Also of the rents of villeins and free tenants there by the year 20. Also of the …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… 6 s. 10 d. for rent of the glebe from the freemen and villeins there, besides 10 cocks and hens paid yearly by the … said he did not know for what land he paid it. When the villeins brought their cocks and hens to Lowestoft on St. … for 100 sheep 10 0 Rent of assize from free tenants and villeins 2 9 1 Works of free tenants 1 16 0 Rent for the view …
A History of the County of Northampton
… and his son can be found making grants of both land and villeins in Potterspury in the early 1260s. 62 Earl Robert … were three serfs, and the other seven shared between 20 villeins, seven bordars and a priest. The manor contained …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… after the Irish manner, making all the tenants thereof his villeins;though the truth be that for one moiety of his … the King was now their chief; that, as they were mere villeins under their lords, they were removable at their …
Three fifteenth-century chronicles
… be protected by a very strong guard (about 60,000 men and villeins, says our MS.) at every town in which he stopped on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1922. 22 In 1086 there were 2 oxherds on the demesne and 3 villeins; 23 8 householders paid the 1327 subsidy, 24 and 25 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… contained a demesne ploughteam and two oxherds, and three villeins with a ploughteam; it was assessed at 1 hide. Its …