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Updated: May 2, 2025
Joseph smiled, and opening the paper, read aloud: "Compassionate emperor! Four days of hard labor as socmen; the fifth day at the fisheries; the sixth day following our lords in the hunt the seventh day is the Lord's. Judge, then, whether we are able to pay our taxes." "Yes, yes," murmured the man to himself, "he cannot say that if we are oppressed, he knows nothing of it."
Give me up to be judged and hanged, and so purge yourselves of the villanous murder of Gilbert's cook, your late lord and master." "Lord and master! We are free men!" shouted the holders, or yeomen gentlemen. "We hold our lands from God and the sun." "You are our lord!" shouted the socmen, or tenants. "Who but you? We will follow, If you will lead!"
Next to the free class were the sochemanni or "socmen," a class of inferior land-owners, who held lands under a lord, and owed suit and service in the lord's court, but whose tenure was permanent. They sometimes performed services in husbandry; but those services, as well as their payments, were defined. Descending in the scale, we come to the villani.
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