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(
s.xiv2; MS: c.1400
)
si emper[er]s ou ascun roy soun se[r]vant honura issint q'il lui deliroit de soun villenage (Latin: a servitute liberaret)Lichfield 241r
(
c.1292; MS: c.1300
)
il est soen vileyn et soen astrer et demoraunt en soen villenage
BRITT ii 155
(
s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3
)
de villeins sount lur gaigneries appell (l. appellees) villenages
Mir Just 80
(
1304
)
Quaunt un homme est seisi de soun vilein, issi q'il est reseaunt denz soun vilenage, e le vilein ayle [...] hors de soun fee...
YBB 32-33 Ed I 57
4area held by villein services, settlement occupied by villeins, village:
(
1260; MS: s.xiv3/3
)
ele feseit wast, vente & exil de terres, maisons, gardins, boys & vilenages
Brev Plac 174
(
s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3
)
Villeins sunt cotivours de fieu, demoranz en villnages upelande
Mir Just 79
(
c.1260; MS: c.1300
)
Si un homme seit feffé del don son seingnur, il ne deit nule suite a sa court, tut seit il de son vileinage, pur ceo qu'il est assez de sa meisné
Casus Plac 24
vileinage (1260)