villein

The villein and his wife and children worked from daybreak to dusk in the fields, except for Sundays and holydays.

And there can be no doubt that it was used in the same sense for the possession of a villein.'

There was one villein who craved leave to give his daughter in marriage,—and he had brought the money to pay.

And there can be no doubt that it was used in the same sense for the possession of a villein.