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bondmen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bondman \Bond"man\, n.; pl. Bondmen. [Bond,a.orn.+ man.]
A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. ``To enfranchise bondmen.''
--Macaulay.(Old Eng. Law) A villain, or tenant in villenage.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of bondman English)
Usage examples of "bondmen".
As the Burgundians kept herds and flocks, they wanted a great deal of land and few bondmen, and the Romans from their application to agriculture had need of less land and of a greater number of bondmen.
King Pepin's army, having penetrated into Aquitaine, returned to France loaded with an immense booty, and with a number of bondmen, as we are informed by the Annals of Metz.
The prince had kept his demesnes in his own hands, and employed his bondmen in improving them.
That strangers upon their coming to France were treated as bondmen is a thing well known.
What was called census in the French monarchy, independently of the abuse made of that word, was a particular tax imposed on the bondmen by their masters.
But the German nations, and those descended from them, are not the only people who manumitted their bondmen, and yet they are the only people that established patrimonial jurisdictions.
Besides, we find by the formularies of Marculfus169 that there were freemen dependent on these jurisdictions in the earliest times: the bondmen were, therefore, subject to the jurisdiction, because they were upon the territory.
If none were here meant but freemen and bondmen, they would have said "a bondman," and not "a man of less power.
We have seen that Tegan distinguishes the bishops,225 who had opposed Louis the Debonnaire, some of whom had been bondmen, and others of a barbarous nation.
Childebert sends ambassadors to tell him that he should not give the cities of his father's kingdom to his daughter, nor his treasures, nor his bondmen, nor horses, nor horsemen, nor teams of oxen, etc.
Now haste all bondmen, let us go, And leave this _Christian_ country O.
Cookman had labored faithfully with slaveholders, whenever he met them, to induce them to emancipate their bondmen, and that he did this as a religious duty.
We had heard of Canada, the real Canaan of the American bondmen, simply as a country to which the wild goose and the swan repaired at the end of winter, to escape the heat of summer, but not as the home of man.
For the first time in anyone's memory, bondmen had stood up to a noble.
Serfs and bondmen had seized their liege's castle without even fighting a battle.