Meaning of esne | Babel Free

Definitions

A hireling of servile status; slave.

historical

Examples

“To an esne, therefore, I refer the entry in Doomsday-book, that at Chester, if a male or female slave shall do any […]”

“[…] of British extraction captured or purchased, — or of the common German stock descended from the slaves of the first colonists: the esne or slave who works for hire; […]”

“[…] insist that in the event of the death of an esne his full value had to be paid.”

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