| 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. |
| So long as villeinage had importance, the courts reinforced status by requiring some labour services over and above that fixed by custom and practice. |
| 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. |
| Meanwhile, one great portion of our villeinage in our larger towns we have much mitigated. |
| 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. |
