| 31. | Villein socage was subject to a number of real burdens and feudal incidents owed to the manorial landlord.
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| 32. | Villeins are known to have worked most frequently within agriculture, especially in the grounds of temples or palaces.
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| 33. | The King held three carucates in demesne and three socmen with 40 villeins and six bordarii held 20 carucates.
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| 34. | It has land for two ploughs, and home to five serfs, one villein, and three bordars.
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| 35. | Domesday Book in 1087 found Morville a substantial settlement with 25 villein households, 7 smallholders and 2 slaves.
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| 36. | The first community developed around the church of cottars who assisted the villeins in return for a hut or cottage.
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| 37. | Landlords, even where legally entitled to do so, rarely evicted villeins because of the value of their labour.
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| 38. | He has in demesne there 3 ploughs, and 15 half villeins, and 4 bondmen, and one knight.
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| 39. | There were two major farms, 15 " villeins " each farming and 20 " borderers " each farming about.
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| 40. | Certainly villeinage continued in England, slowly decaying, until the last villein died in the early 17th century ..
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