For one thing, the poll-tax was stopped, and the end of villeinage was hastened.
The total abolition of all villeinage (forced labour) and serfdom.
The boy-king met the mob at Mile-End, and promised to abolish villeinage in England.
The villeinage into which the peasants had been thrust back could not, indeed, endure long, because service unwillingly rendered is too expensive to be maintained.
The insurrectionists demanded of the King that villeinage (S113) should be abolished, and that the rent of agricultural lands should be fixed by Parliament at a uniform rate in money.
On the other hand, many who had been free now sank into that state of villeinage (S150) which, as it bound them to the soil, was but one remove from actual slavery.
In Scotland, villeinage lasted much longer, and as late as 1774, in the reign of George III, men working in coal and salt mines were held in a species of slavery, which was finally abolished the following year.
But when villeinage ceased, various and opposite courses seemed to have been pursued in different boroughs.
The master's counsel contended that slavery was not a condition unsanctioned by English law, for villeinage was slavery, and no statute had ever abolished villeinage.
The last court case concerning villeinagewas in 1618.
The rebels at first demanded no more than that Richard should declare villeinage abolished, and that all feudal dues and services should be commuted for a rent of fourpence an acre.
This has been the process wherever (the name of) villeinage or slavery has been successfully abandoned.
One of your most illustrious judges, who was also a profound and philosophical historian, has said "that villeinage was not abolished, but went into decay in England.
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.
Villeinage was forgotten by the Rhine, the Severn, and the Seine, before serfage was established on the Moskva and the Don.
Some of the facts which prove this difference between Western villeinage and Eastern serfage lie beyond dispute.
Villeinage came with the dark ages and passed away with them.
Villeinage was introduced by foreign princes, serfage by native tsars.
To understand it, we must lay aside all notion of serfage in Moscow and Tamboff being the same thing as villeinage in Surrey and the Isle of France.
Serfage has but a vague resemblance to the system of villeinage once so common in the West; and serfage was not villeinage under another name.
The project of emancipation, drawn up under the eyes of Nicolas, was not a Russian document in either form or spirit; but a German state paper, based on the misleading western notion that serfage was but villeinage under a better name.
Villeinage followed a disastrous war; serfage followed liberation from a foreign yoke.
Vinogradoff's review of Page's The End of Villeinage in England.
The connection with copyhold tenure of some of the characteristic obligations and disabilities of villeinage points in the same direction.
Long after villeinage has disappeared, copyholders still bear traces of having sprung from a class of whom the law was reluctant to take cognizance, traces of being nurtured in a "villein nest.
Generalisations about the disappearance of villeinage and the substitution of hired labour for the working out of rents in labour services do not help us much here.
We have watched them shake off many of the restrictions imposed by villeinage and build up considerable properties.
However, if the villein remained peacefully in a privileged town a year and a day and was received into its guild as a citizen, then he was freed from villeinage in every way.
Afterwards he put himself on a grand assize as to which of the two had greater right in the aforesaid land without any challenge of villeinage being made on the part of the Abbot or of John.
Manumission became common at a time when the demand for English wool was encouraging pasture at the sacrifice of tillage, but even in the fifteenth century men might suffer atrocious ignominy through the imputation of villeinage (Nos.
By the beginning of the sixteenth century personal villeinagehas almost disappeared; only one document therefore (No.
One Thomas Dovenel holds in villeinage of the lord of A; in villeinage of the lord of B; in freehold of the lord of B; in freehold of a tenant of the lord of B; in freehold of a tenant of a tenant of the lord of B.
Villeinage and monasticism are not quite independent phenomena; even a lawyer could see the analogy between the two[1118].
Against a background of villeinage and week-work, the borough begins to stand out as the scene of burgage tenure.
A plea had been set up that villeinage had never been abolished by law in England; ergo, the possession of slaves was not illegal.
But Lord Mansfield ruled: "Villeinage has ceased in England, and it cannot be revived.
It lingered on, and Fitzherbert lamented in Elizabeth's reign the continuance of villeinage as a disgrace to England; but it had then nearly disappeared, and was unheard of after the reign of James I.
Compare the account of the manors in Huntingdonshire belonging to Romsey Abbey given in Page End of Villeinage in England, pp.
During the century and a half which followed the Peasant Revolt villeinage died out so rapidly that it became a rare and antiquated thing.
In the seventy years which had intervened since the last peasant rising, villeinage had died naturally away before the progress of social change.
The question of villeinage and serfage finds no place in it.
In the new French possessions, villeinage and servitude were abolished, with a haste and recklessness which was intended to win the people to the new dominion.
Thus, in the first half of the sixteenth century, the old serfdom which still existed in a very harsh form in many provinces was mitigated, and villeinage substituted.
When Parliament met, the king proposed to them that his promise to the insurgents should stand firm so far as the abolition of villeinage was concerned, since this had been the main cause of the rising.
They asked that villeinage should be abolished, and all lands held on villein-tenure be made into leasehold farms rated at 4d.
Nevertheless, the rising had not failed in its object, for in future the lords of the manors were afraid to enforce the full letter of their claims over the peasants, and villeinage gradually sank into desuetude.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villeinage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
