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"Well," continued the Antiquary, "I would bet a trifle there was not a kolb kerl, or bondsman, or peasant, ascriptus glebae, died upon the monks' territories down here, but John of the Girnel saw them fairly and decently interred." "Ay, but if it like your honour, they say he had mair to do wi' the births than the burials. Ha! ha! ha!" with a gleeful chuckle.
'For, continued he, 'although it has been justly held in all nations a matter of scandal and dishonour to infringe the SACRAMENTUM MILITARE, and that whether it was taken by each soldier singly, whilk the Romans denominated PER CONJURATIONEM, or by one soldier in name of the rest, yet no one ever doubted that the allegiance so sworn was discharged by the DIMISSIO, or discharging of a soldier, whose case would be as hard as that of colliers, salters, and other ADSCRIPTI GLEBAE, or slaves of the soil, were it to be accounted otherwise.
We, in England, had the same distinction between 'Laet, or 'villains' settled on the land, glebae adscripti, and mere thralls or theows, slaves pure and simple.
The Common Explanation Inaccurate Serfage the Result of Permanent Economic and Political Causes Origin of the Adscriptio Glebae Its Consequences Serf Insurrection Turning-point in the History of Serfage Serfage in Russia and in Western Europe State Peasants Numbers and Geographical Distribution of the Serf Population Serf Dues Legal and Actual Power of the Proprietors The Serfs' Means of Defence Fugitives Domestic Serfs Strange Advertisements in the Moscow Gazette Moral Influence of Serfage.
* There are plain indications in the documents of the time that the great dignitaries were at first hostile to the adscriptio glebae. We find a similar phenomenon at a much more recent date in Little Russia.
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