Note 140 — Book V.
John Beames translation
Villenagium. “Villein is from the French word Villaine, and that, à villâ, quia villæ adscriptus est.”—“Villenagium, (as in like cases hath been said where the termination is in age) is the service of a Bondman. And yet, a freeman may do the service of him that is bond.” (Co. Litt. 116. a. See also Cowell ad voc. and Mirror, c. 2. s. 28.)