Abstract

In 1474, when Duke Charles of Burgundy was preparing a military expedition to the Rhine, a document drawn up under the responsibility of the Grand Bailiff of Hainault fixed the number of trolleys that could provide farms belonging to the religious houses of the county. This is a precise testimony of a persistent seigniorial practice, the Carriage chore, in this case for the army, which the territorial prince tends to reserve and governs by means of ordinances, and to which the clergy itself cannot escape.

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