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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were common after the haymaking. 128 The existence of villeins and yardlands, and the crop rotation suggest that …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… estimate of the respective numbers of free tenants and villeins. Numerous deeds dating from the late 13th and early …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the ordeal (by water) and cost of doing justice on those villeins who had burnt their lord 35; and 2 2 s. spent in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… comprised, besides the fishermen already mentioned, 15 villeins with 10 acres each, 13 sokemen, who had always been …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of varying sizes, some lying outside the parish. Nineteen villeins each paid 16 d. or 24 d. rent a year besides goods … were known collectively as the 19½ customers. Three other villeins, called the three thrashers, paid no rent on their … festivals. Twenty-one other tenants, most of whom were villeins, were quit of week-works but owed varying services …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Robert then had 2 ploughs and a serf on the demesne, and 5 villeins, 5 bordars, and 9 socmen had 4 ploughs. Two … Of 8 ploughs, 3 were in demesne, and 5 were held by 11 villeins, 8 socmen, a priest, 5 bordars, and 6 serfs. Two of … from 7½ virgates in 1265 to 7 in 1279 and 6 in 1436. The villeins held 9½ virgates in 1265 and 5 in 1279, and an …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wales in 121112, 276 and rent lost from a freehold held by villeins 'in time of war' 277 suggests dislocation either …