Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Saturday, 4 May 2024, 12:00 PM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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Valor EcclesiasticusThe evaluation of ecclesiastical land carried out in 1535. |
VassalA person who acknowledged another as an overlord and was bound by obligations to that overlord. |
Vestry RoomOriginally related to the room where the parish vestry, the equivalent of a local council, met. Developed into meaning an ante–room in a church or chapel where deacons’ meetings and chapel functions were held. |
VilleinAn unfree agricultural peasant, bound to provide labour service for his lord in return for a small land holding. |
VivariesGame pens. |
Volney, Constantin de(1757–1820) French aristocrat, author of Les Ruines, ou Méditations sur les Revolutions des Empires (1791), a work advocating equality of all men, the overthrow of despotism, and religious toleration. |
VoltaireanFollower of the doctrines of the French philosopher, Voltaire (1694–1778), one of the great figures of the Enlightenment. |