| The pride of nobility would not have admitted unnoble freeholders to have shared in the most honourable of its privileges. |
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| The village has a green, communally owned by the freeholders and stocks in the churchyard. |
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| Lords based their authority over other freeholders on two types of vassalage. |
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| While it is difficult to quantify, the policies and attitudes of different freeholders have some effect on rental values. |
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| By the later 19th century historians writing of England from a European perspective often saw peasants as small freeholders, copyholders, and even farmers. |
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| The property qualification for voters was for freeholders who held land from the crown of the value of 40s of auld extent. |
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| So many freeholders of English will be able to beard and to counterpoise the rest. |
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| The attendance of knights and freeholders had become important, and burgh commissioners joined them to form the Three Estates. |
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| The ruling class was the ealdorman and thanes, there were freeholders, holding their own land and other freemen such as tradesmen, craftsmen, merchants and clergy. |
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| By the early 14th century, the attendance of knights and freeholders had become important, and Robert the Bruce began regularly calling burgh commissioners to his Parliament. |
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| By the early fourteenth century, the attendance of knights and freeholders had become important, and from 1326 commissioners from the burghs attended. |
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| Reform was gradual and the regime itself carried out agrarian reforms that had the effect of weakening absolutism by creating a class of independent peasant freeholders. |
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| From 1430 onwards, the franchise was limited to Forty Shilling Freeholders, that is men who owned freehold property worth forty shillings or more. |
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