Bordars

** Serfs, villeins, and bordars of the world, unite! ❋ Unknown (2011)

Indeed, over the centuries Catholic kings and popes gradually abolished the institution of slavery replacing ancient slavery with the Feudal serf and then replacing the serf and the unfree villeins, bordars and cottars with a free, land-owning peasantry and villeinage. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In the reign of the Conqueror the powerful Robert Despenser had in this parish eighty acres of meadow land, three hundred and fifty acres of wood, and two mills, with sokemen, velleins, and bordars; other land, with dependents, being owned by Gozelin, a vassal of Alured of Lincoln, named above in connection with Woodhall. ❋ James Conway Walter (N/A)

“Villeins” were the lower class of labourers, living in the village; “bordars” a better class, living in cottages attached to the Manor House, and enjoying certain privileges. ❋ James Conway Walter (N/A)

The number of ploughs, of oxgangs and carucates, and of villanes and bordars in each manor is given in Domesday, but to give each extract in full would take up much space and would be a little wearisome. ❋ Gordon Home (1923)

There is one carrucate in demesne, and twenty-five villans, and thirty-three bordars, with one carrucate. ❋ Jacob Abbott (1841)

4 Frenchmen hold 2 hides, with 4 ploughs and 4 bordars, worth 60s. of the above total. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“for the salvation of his soul,” land in Bucknall, comprising “1 carucate, {162} with 5 villiens, 2 bordars, and 8 soc-men, with another carucate; meadow 120 acres, and wood 50 acres.” ❋ James Conway Walter (N/A)

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