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Abhors
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Absolutely hates or loathes
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Allegiance
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Loyalty to someone, to be on their side
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Bequest
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A gift left to a person by one who has died
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Bordars
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Had a cottage, some land and one or two oxen. They had to do week work for the lord of the manor for a certain amount of days per week, the rest of the time he could hire himself out.
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Burgess
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A freeman or citizen of an English borough
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Burh
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Anglo Saxon fortified town
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Chattels
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Personal property
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Carucate
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Ploughland, the Danelaw equivalent of the Anglo Saxon hide
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Danelaw
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The sections of England under the jurisdiction of Danish law
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Demesne
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Land owned by the lord of the manor that the peasants had to work on
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Ecclesiastical
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About the Church
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Etymology
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Study of the origin of words
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Freeman
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Owned land in the manor which they could sell or otherwise dispose of
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Furlong
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A unit for measuring distance, equal to 1/8 mile (201 meters)
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Geld
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Tax
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Grestak
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A kind of tax
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Heriot
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A death duty to the lord ( a piece of military equipment or the best beast)
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Hide
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Area of land big enough to support one family
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Hundred
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The name is derived from the number one hundred and it may in some areas once have referred to a hundred men under arms - in England, however, it was that amount of land sufficient to sustain one hundred families
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Indenture
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A written agreement between two or more people
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Mancuses
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Gold coins
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Manor
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The district over which a lord ruled
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Merchet
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A fee paid to the lord when a tenant's daughter gets married
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Messuage
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House and adjoining land
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Obscure
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Not clear
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Pannage
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The right to release pigs into woodland to eat fallen acorns
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Per annum
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Each year
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Perpetual
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For ever
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Pitcher
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Jug
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Populace
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People
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Serfs
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Almost slaves
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Succumb
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Give in to
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Sustenance
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Usually food, what is needed to keep alive
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Synod
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Meeting of Bishops and other churchmen
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Villeins
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They had more land than Bordars, but still had to do week work
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Virgate
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Measure of land between 15 and 40 acres
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Week work
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Work that the peasants did for the Lord of the manor in exchange for a place to live and protection of living on the manor
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Witan
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Council of advisers to the Anglo Saxon kings
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Withal
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In addition
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