villein

How To Use villein In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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.