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How to use villeinage in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word villeinage? Here are some examples.

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The villeins had not won their freedom this time but had changed history and themselves forever, and within 50 years villeinage had disappeared from England forever.
So long as villeinage had importance, the courts reinforced status by requiring some labour services over and above that fixed by custom and practice.
On the 14th Richard agreed to the demands, which included a general pardon, abolition of villeinage, liberty to trade and the fixing of land rent at four pence per acre.
Examples from Classical Literature
Against a background of villeinage and week-work, the borough begins to stand out as the scene of burgage tenure.
But when villeinage ceased, various and opposite courses seemed to have been pursued in different boroughs.
Meanwhile, one great portion of our villeinage in our larger towns we have much mitigated.
Britton, who wrote in the reign of Edward I., thus describes this tenure under the name of villeinage.
For one thing, the poll-tax was stopped, and the end of villeinage was hastened.
In Scotland they had just been emancipated from the status of villeinage.
Such redemption was considered a special mark of tenure in villeinage.
The ceorls tended to sink to the position known later as villeinage.
In England it subsisted for some ages under the name of villeinage.
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