How To Use Villein In A Sentence
-
Vinogradoff and others have conclusively established that there was not a real difference in status between the so-called villein regardant and villein in gross, and that in any case the villein was not properly a slave but rather a serf. [
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
-
I can think of three explanations for the “villein” claim in the Triads:
Cadafael, King of Gwynedd
-
Cruel reaction ensued: Richard and Parliament annulled the charters; terrible repression followed, and a deliberate effort was made to restore villeinage.
1377-89
-
Even in villeinage we would have married and been thankful.
A Rare Benedictine
-
Could she truly be so shallow as to be drawn to a weak-minded, contemptible villein better suited to walk behind an ox plowing fields than dare to lift his eyes to a queen?
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
-
Rents had been low, too, on peasants' customary holdings; labour services had been commuted, and servile villeinage had virtually disappeared by 1485.
-
Well, they happen, the lightning-strokes of God, the gifted or misfortunates who are born into a world where they nowhere belong, the saints and scholars who come to manhood unrecognized, guarding the swine in the forest pastures among the beechmast, the warrior princes villein-born and youngest in a starving clan, set to scare the crows away from the furrow.
The Virgin In The Ice
-
The manor of Countisbury rendered geld for half a hide, of which the lord held one virgate and four ploughs, and the villeins held one virgate and six ploughs.
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
-
The villein, halfslave as he was in some respects, held lands of his own which he tilled on those days of the year when his lord had no claim upon him or his oxen.
-
Thus it was that toward 1215, or pretty nearly contemporaneously with the epoch when men like Grosseteste began to show restlessness under the extortionate corruption of the Church, the villein was discovered to be able to defend his claim to some portion of the increment in the value of the land which he tilled and which was due to his labor: and this title the manorial courts recognized, because they could not help it, as a sort of tenant right, calling it a customary tenancy by base service.
The Emancipation of Massachusetts
-
The grounds around the manor were permitted for the hunting recreation of the lord and lady alone; no such serf, villein, or peasant could so much as touch a tattered bow and expect to shoot anything with it.
-
So long as villeinage had importance, the courts reinforced status by requiring some labour services over and above that fixed by custom and practice.
-
He and his children were in 1353 released by Alan Reyner of nearby Roughton from any claim of being Alan's villeins.
-
villein" was real property and in the same case as land: also that when Parliament came to legislate so as to make lands in the American
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
-
All villeins and cottars in the Seven Kingdoms gather to celebrate the successful harvests of the summer seasons and to prepare for the coming winter.
-
Well, he had known them crop up in cottage no less than in castle, in croft and toft, and among the soil-bound villein families, too.
The Virgin In The Ice
-
Moving her body through the crowd of reeking villeins and fat noblemen, she looked up at Will, she being half a foot shorter than he.
-
The villein villages till the soil among them, and pay their communal dues together, though every man has his dwelling and his cattle and his fair share of the land.
His Disposition
-
The investigation of Paul Vinogradoff and others have conclusively established that there was not a real difference in status between the so-called villein regardant and villein in gross, and that in any case the villein was not properly a slave but rather a serf. [
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919
-
From magnate to baron, from workman to villein, from publicist to court agent and retainer, will be changes of state and function so slight as to elude all but the keenest eyes.
A REVIEW
-
What is interesting is that the insect imagery used to characterise the villeins is continued here.
-
His right to the land, in fact, was not freehold, but tenure by villein socage.
The Philippine Islands
-
These ideas raised the imagination of the villeins beyond the harshness of their daily lives, fusing their anger with a utopian vision, creating a revolutionary consciousness, one that was about to burst into life.
-
Typically, villeins were required to work on their lord's lands at harvest time and to carry his produce to the market.
-
In 1353 Lynn merchant and jurat Laurence de Reppes negotiated a release from all claim that a Roughton man had on him or his issue as villeins.
-
Above the serfs were the Villeins, freemen who were tied to their lord's land, equivalent to the Saxon gebur.
-
It was another victim of the plague: by 1358 permission was given to turn its fields into a park because every villein was dead and the village no longer had any taxpayers.
-
The court customary was the court for unfree tenants or villeins and was presided over by the lord's steward or bailiff.
-
If the courts decided that a slave was merely a modern-day villein, or serf, then his master might be legally entitled to transport him to Jamaica.
-
As a villein is an unfree peasant or serf, this is unlikely to be literally true.
Cadafael, King of Gwynedd
-
Beginning in November the status of foreign burgess was granted to various lords who wished to acquire exemption from toll, for themselves and their villeins, on products grown on their estates and on goods bought for personal use.
-
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.
-
The threat to haul him back to villeinage would be enough to make the lad take to his heels, the faster the better.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
-
The characters are the ages of the students performing and have names such as Hugo the lord’s nephew, Taggot the blacksmith’s daughter, Mogg the villein’s daughter, Thomas the doctor’s son, Nelly the sniggler, and Giles the beggar.
Archive 2008-12-01
-
The absolute powerless nature of their position may be summarized: ‘There was no custom, no tradition to which they could refer, as could the villeins or tenants, in the care of an autocratic master.’
-
As villeins or servants of a lord they represented the bottom tier of society.
-
Field, and respected and respectable, as respectable as respec-table can respectably be, though their orable amission were the herrors I could have expected, all, let them all come, they are my villeins, with chartularies I have talledged them.
Finnegans Wake
-
Aelfric's father was born free as you or I, but younger son in a holding that was none too large even for one, and rather than have it split, when his father died, he left it whole for his brother, and took a villein yardland that had fallen without heirs, on my husband's manor.
Monk's Hood
-
Another very important distinction between the free tenants and the villeins was the payment of _merchet_ on the marriage of daughters, which signified that the offspring of such marriages would be the lawful property of the lord.
The Customs of Old England
-
All villeins and cottars in the Seven Kingdoms gather to celebrate the successful harvests of the summer seasons and to prepare for the coming winter.
-
This article explores the obstacles to such litigation, challenging the claim that servile villeinage acted to restrict villagers' choice of court.
Archive 2008-12-01
-
Then the population of the manor was to be given in classes: freemen and sokemen; villeins, cotters, and serfs; the amount of forest and meadow; the number of pastures, mills, and fish-ponds; and what the value of the manor was in the time of King Edward, at the date of its grant by King William, and at the time of the inquiry.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
-
At the lowest end of the social scale this was self-evidently true of slaves, but it was also true of many other categories of tenant - the English villein, the Scottish neif, the Welsh taeog, and the Irish betagh.
-
In particular, they rejected villeinage - the condition of hereditary unfreedom - which bore down on them in a variety of ways.
-
By the 13th century the pattern was beginning to unravel as more and more villeins obtained their freedom and became copyholders.
-
Indeed, over the centuries Catholic kings and popes gradually abolished the institution of slavery replacing ancient slavery with the Feudal serf and then replacing the serf and the unfree villeins, bordars and cottars with a free, land-owning peasantry and villeinage.
The State's Obligation to Recognize and Protect the Catholic Church
-
The villeins of the manorial estates, of the great farms, the mines, and the forests.
A REVIEW
-
They lorded it over us: we serfs and villeins got precisely zilch.
-
Neither a serf nor a villein (a class of serf attached as a bondsman to a specific lord and/or manor) rightfully owned the land upon which he worked.
-
As he says, "Bondage to the land was the basis of villeinage in the old regime; bondage to the job will be the basis of villeinage in the new.
A REVIEW
-
Valiant men, forsooth, shall arise in the beginning of these evil times, but though they shall die as ye shall, yet shall not their deaths be fruitful as yours shall be; because ye, forsooth, are fighting against villeinage which is waning, but they shall fight against usury which is waxing.
A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
-
Most men of these local villages, tied to the soil by villeinage but also by inclination, and likely to marry within a very few miles 'radius, tended to have a close clan resemblance and a strong clan loyalty.
The Holy Thief
