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A History of the County of Middlesex
… distinguishes three categories of servile tenants: villeins, bordars, and cottars. Of slaves proper there are … manors in the six hundreds of the county, 1,936 are villeins (1,133), bordars (342), and cottars (461). The only … was to be taken back to the grange by the servant. Those villeins who had no plough were to thrash in the grange till …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was paid by ecclesiastics and freeholders, and even by villeins and nativi. 22 A good instance is found at … enfeoffed as a freeman. 36 A link between freeholders and villeins was formed by the free socmen and tenants in socage, … and the consuetudinarii and nativi are probably but old villeins with new faces, the descendants of the Domesday …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on Stanton Wyard manor between 1323 and 1349 the number of villeins fell from 23 to 13. Another seven died during the … Black Death, and on the Harcourt manor in 1349 lands of villeins and cottagers formerly rendering £30 a year lay …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in South Leigh, including unlisted free tenants; 31 villeins and 14 cottagers were mentioned, but of those c. 10 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… virgates in villeinage. 37 It was said in 1295 that the villeins were tallaged at the lord's will, but that they had …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… acres with 3 ploughs were in demesne. Here there were 10 villeins, 4 cottars, and 5 serfs; a rather mysterious entry … to the soil. They had land for 5 ploughs, and there were 8 villeins each with virgate, 4 bordars each with 5 acres, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in demesne. Another 5 ploughlands were divided between 23 villeins, 12 of whom had 10 acres each; the remainder shared …