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Were the Devonshire Villani Serfs? 

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. XIX, (1887), pp. 438-450.

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Very Rev. Canon Brownlow, M.A.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The scholarly paper, presented at the Association’s July 1887 Plympton meeting provides much information about the social system in Devonshire at the time of the Domesday Book. The topic was particularly important since the Association was, at the time of writing, progressing towards publication  of The Devonshire Domesday. During this process, the Publication Committee had realised that many of the terms they encountered were ill defined, or over-lapped in definition.  The author concludes that at the time of the Domesday survey, the population of our county, with Cornwall, was in a more servile condition than most of the counties of England.  The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.