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Excerpt from The Feudal Regime
Outside of the reserve, from which the landlord drew profit directly by means of the corvées, the domain was cut up into tenures (that is, the holdings), divided here into two classes: the larger ones, the free holdings, to judge by their name, were occupied at first by free tenants; the smaller, the servile holdings, by slaves of the landlord. But this division did not last, for in the very register which makes it known to us we see that it had ceased to be observed; we find serfs on free holdings and free tenants on servile holdings.
An inventory of the estates of Charlemagne, dating from 810, shows an altogether similar régime established on island of a little lake in the mountains of Bavaria (staffelsee).
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