Vil'la·ger noun An inhabitant of a village. « Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition.» Shak. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/25
the normal peasant farmer of Anglo-Norman England, usually holding between 1 and 3 YARDLANDs from the LORD of a MANOR in 1086.
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