1occupationstatusagriculturalbordar, tenant of a cottage ranking below villeins and above serfs, compelled to the most arduous works on a demesne:
(
s.xiv;
MS: s.xvi
)
Le seignur pur un den. que il donrad, si erent quites ses bordiers e ses bovers e ses serjanz
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