à proprement parler, * properly speaking

5. à la glèbe, *to the soil,' literally, *to the clod' (Latin gîeba), The serf was described as adscriptus gldfcu^ and was sold with the land on which he lived.

8. de payer sa rançon. The vassals of a lord, and the serfs of his demesne, were bound to fumish spécial aids or contributions to make his eldest son a knight, to marry his eldest daughter and to ransom him if taken in war. It was the levy of ransom for the nobles taken at Poitiers that caused the peasant revolt of the Jacquerie.

10. pécule, 'savings,' as opposed to the land, which belonged to the lord. Pécule is from the Latin peculium^ a diminutive of pecunia, and applied to the money earned by a slave in leisure hours.

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