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Origin of cottier1
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Example Sentences
Cottier, one of these, was paid a retaining fee of ten thousand crowns, besides great sums in lands and money.
Poor Maurice, whose heart could never stand the slightest wrong done the humblest cottier on his land, how will he bear up now?
The greater number of them are, however, evidently the holdings of small cottier tenants.
Then follows a list of the little cottier tenants, and their holdings and services.
There were also holders of fardels or quarter-virgates, and half-fardels, or one-eighth-virgates, and other small cottier tenants.
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