freemen in English
Although Norwich's custumal prohibited serfs from becoming freemen , it may be doubted that a thorough enquiry was made of the background of each applicant.
Use "freemen" in a sentence
1. Three freemen: Three long-serving Middlesbrough councillors have been made freemen of the borough in a special ceremony at the town hall.
2. Synonyms for Burgesses include citizens, burghers, denizens, inhabitants, residents, townsmen, dwellers, freemen, householders and locals
3. Burghers, as Dutch citizens of incorporated cities, enjoyed the economic and political rights of freemen
4. The Swiss are freemen, and wear the fact unconsciously but palpably on their brows and Beaming from their eyes
5. If the distributive trades are included with the above, then three freemen out of every five provided for the customer.
6. Much of that history stems from the actions of its early Burgesses, those responsible citizens who, appointed as Freemen, were charged with
7. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) “It is our pride,” the prince answered Coldly, “that we rule over freemen and not slaves.”
8. Moniz and Freemen are usually credited with inventing the lobotomy in the 1930s, though in truth their work was based on many other people's research going back to the mid-19th century.
9. Robert Blott and Thomas Woodford, who later became his son-in-law, were among those persons who were admitted freemen of Massachusetts on March 4, 1634-'35.* By a law passed in May 1631,
10. Willing, commaunding, and requiring, and by theis Presents for Us, our Heires, and Successors, ordeyning and appointing, that all such Orders, Lawes, Statuts and Ordinances, Instructions and Directions, as shalbe soe made by the Governor, or Deputie Governor of the said Company, and such of the Assistants and Freemen as Aforesaide, and
11. Churl (n.) Old English ceorl "peasant, one of the lowest class of freemen, man without rank," from Proto-Germanic *kerlaz, *karlaz (source also of Old Frisian zerl "man, fellow," Middle Low German kerle, Dutch kerel "freeman of low degree," German Kerl "man, husband," Old Norse karl "old man, man").
12. The Assize of Arms of 1181 was a proclamation of King Henry II of England concerning the obligation of all freemen of England to possess and bear arms in the service of king and realm and to swear allegiance to the king, on pain of "vengeance, not merely on their lands or chattels, but on their limbs"
13. The Assize of Arms of 1181 was a proclamation of King Henry II of England concerning the obligation of all freemen of England to possess and bear arms in the service of king and realm and to swear allegiance to the king, on pain of "vengeance, not merely on their lands or chattels, but on their limbs"
14. Bourgeoisie (n.) 1707, "body of freemen in a French town," hence, "the French middle class," also extended to that of other countries, from French bourgeois, from Old French burgeis, borjois (12c.) "town dweller" (as distinct from "peasant"), from borc "town, village," from Frankish *burg "city" (from PIE root *bhergh-(2) "high," with derivatives referring to hills and hill-forts).
15. Bourgeoisie (n.) 1707, "body of freemen in a French town," hence, "the French middle class," also extended to that of other countries, from French bourgeois, from Old French Burgeis, borjois (12c.) "town dweller" (as distinct from "peasant"), from borc "town, village," from Frankish *burg "city" (from PIE root *bhergh-(2) "high," with derivatives referring to hills and hill-forts).