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But, as the country became more populous, and the attendance of the knights and barons in parliament became more frequent and necessary, we find villanage gradually fall into disrepute.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

It cannot be denied that the labour of the poor English is as effectually secured under the present arrangements, as it could possibly be under the system of villanage.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

Workmen in Hamburg are still in a state of villanage; beneath the roof of the “Herr” do they find at once a workshop, a dormitory, and a home.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

If you want white villanage, go into the hovels in the Nantahela range, where your hostess shall give you corn-cakes and fried opossum (which you eat with your fingers), and rye coffee poured into a gourd.

The Middle-Aged Woman 1875

He put an end to survivals of mediæval clericalism, established freedom of worship, made marriage a civil contract, abolished class privilege, made taxation uniform, and replaced serfdom in Bohemia by the form of villanage which existed in

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

Four years after his accession, a great insurrection of the peasants broke out, from discontent under the yoke of villanage, and the pressure of taxes.

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

The Great Charter was extorted from King John by the barons in order to consolidate their power; they attended to the interests of the common people (who then were in a state of villanage) just so far as they could clearly see would be for their own interest, and no further.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

Historians are fond of recording the supposed sufferings of the poor in the days of serfdom and villanage; yet the records of the strikes of the last ten years, when told by the sufferers, contain pictures no less fertile in tragedy.

Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856

Historians are fond of recording the supposed sufferings of the poor in the days of serfdom and villanage; yet the records of the strikes of the last ten years, when told by the sufferers, contain pictures no less fertile in tragedy.

Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856

Their condition was very different from that of the ordinary slaves in antiquity, and more similar to the villanage of the middle ages.

A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853