Peasantry

Domesday Book records a wide range of peasant groups and rural occupations, some systematically others only erratically. For the rural population and the major peasant groups, see:

• boor

• bordar

• Cottager

• cottager

• dreng

• freedman

• freeman

• Freeman

• oxman

• peasants

• ploughman

• rider

• riding man

• serf

• slave

• smallholder

• sokeman

• villager

• villein.