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A History of the County of Somerset
… and had 2 teams and 4 serfs. Tenants, described as 11 villeins and 4 bordars, had 6 teams. There were 300 a. of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… or servile tenure before the 16th century; tithes of villeins were mentioned in the 12th century, 47 and the villeins of Woolstrop held 2½ yardlands in 1246. 48 In 1502 …
A History of the County of Essex
… population all dropped. 1 There were 4 freemen, 24 villeins, 11 bordars, and 11 serfs in 1066, but only 25 villeins, 18 bordars, and 4 serfs in 1086. In 1066 there were … manor's population had risen. In 1066 there had been 12 villeins, 2 bordars, and 5 serfs; in 1086 the manor had 12 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… teams between them in 1086, and in 1279 there were 21 villeins with 1/2 yardland or a little more each and 13 … of harvest work, but ploughing at the lord's will by the villeins and haymaking by the others were recorded and may …
Register & Records of Holm Cultram
… (etc.) reversions (etc.), wardships, marriages, bondmen, villeins with all that pertains to them (etc.) jurisdictions, …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… for 2 ploughs, but the canons then had 2 ploughs and 20 villeins had 4 more. There was meadow league long and league … s. On the bishop of Durham's estate in 1086 2 sokemen, 3 villeins, and 2 bordars had 2 ploughs. 80 There is little …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… rents, homages and services as well of free tenants as of villeins, and their chattels and effects, and also the …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… by way of the marriage of free women married to their villeins, whereby the free lands descend to the sons and daughters of the villeins; and so the religious at once cause the same lands …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… and lords of parliament from the commons claiming that villeins belonging to lords, bishops, abbots, priors and … sometimes forcibly, so that the lords to whom the villeins belong are unable to reclaim them. This is to the … of the lords, as well as being a bad example to other villeins, who, seeing that there is no remedy for this, …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… that the promises of freedom made by the king to the villeins ought to be upheld, even if (as seems likely) their … of franchise and manumission under his great seal to the villeins of his kingdom and others, knowing full well that he … that if you wish to enfranchise and make free the said villeins by your common agreement, as he has been informed …