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Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law?Chapters 88-90 — Schools and Schoolmasters; Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish; Heads or Tails (63% in)
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