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GCSE History · key term
A peasant who was legally free rather than bound to a lord, and who could rent and cultivate land.
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Paper 2
Revise: Economic and Social ChangesFreemen, known as ceorls in Anglo-Saxon England, rented and farmed land but were legally free. Villeins were bound to the manor. They cultivated strips for their own food but also worked on the lord’s land without wages, often for about three days each week.
Distinguish social groups. Freemen, villeins and slaves did not have the same rights or obligations.
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