Villeins andbordars were under-tenants of two different classes, bordars being superior to villeins.
We learn from Domesday that bordars were tenants of five acres, and that the bordars under the Castle of Ewias worked once a week: the Saxon cottar held at least five acres, and was accustomed to work for the lord every Monday.
There is one villane of one virgate; and five bordars of one virgate; and one bondman.
There are two villanes of half a hide; and one villane of half a virgate; and two bordars of ten acres; and three cottagers.
There are four villanes who hold this land under the canons; and four bordars and thirteen cottagers.
There the Bishop has fifteen villeins and four bordars and three serfs and three cows and twenty sheep and sixty acres of underwood and forty acres of pasture.
There Heldric has six bordarsand two serfs and forty sheep and forty acres of pasture.
There Alnod has three bordars and one serf and three acres of wood and 100 acres of pasture.
There are, moreover, three bordarsand two bondmen, and four mills of 26s.
Five villanes and two bordars have two ploughs and one acre of meadow there.
Three foreigners and thirty-six villeins with eight bordars have there fifteen ploughs, and one may yet be made.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bordars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
