Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 4:07 AM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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FarrierA person who shoes horses. |
FealtyAn oath sworn to one’s lord promising faithful service as part of an act of homage. |
Feargus O'Connor's Land PlanFeargus O'Connor was a leading Chartist, who founded the Chartist newspaper, The Northern Star in 1837, and advocated the peasant ownership of land. |
Federation, LiberalAn association of Liberals. In the late nineteenth century north and south Wales were grouped in separate Liberal federations. |
Fed, TheSee South Wales Miners' Federation. |
Feudal duesDues owed to a lord of the manor by his tenants. |
FeudalismA social structure and system of land tenure based on the equation of landholding with military responsibility. The king granted land to his tenants-in-chief in return for military service and they infeudated their knights and retainers, while the actual farm work would be done by unfree labourers in return for the use of some land for themselves. |
Ffridd\FfriddoeddMountain pastures or sheep walks. |
FiefsLand held in return for homage and services (normally military). |
Food renderA tax of foodstuffs upon a community for the maintenance of the court or one of its officers. |