Bondmen synonyms

There is nothing to be found in Tusser about serfs or bondmen, as in Fitzherbert's works.

The Jews too begin to sink into bondmen.

Dr Lea is probably right in suggesting that it was a confused recollection of these decrees which prompted one of Cranmer's judges to assure him that "his children were bondmen to the see of Canterbury."

As for male workmen they are chiefly tceogs in Wales, that is half-free bondmen with a certain though base standing in law.