The Cottars are a Canadian Celtic musical group from Cape Breton Island formed in 2000. The group's current members are Ciarán MacGillivray, Fiona MacGillivray...

lord. A cottar or cottier is also a term for a tenant who was renting land from a farmer or landlord. Cottars were between a third and a half of the rural...

1588, the cottage had to be built with at least 4 acres (0.02 km2; 0.01 sq mi) of land. The later Enclosures Acts (1604 onwards) removed the cottars' right...

part of the Highland clearances, of many tenants and cottars. Some of those cleared found employment on the new, larger farms, others moved to the accessible...

which had existed in Lowland Scotland in the seventeenth century. Thousands of cottars and tenant farmers from the southern counties (Lowlands) of Scotland...

would break the law, for example, use violence. Nevertheless, the 19th and early 20th centuries saw various land raids in which cottars attempted to...

Ciarán MacGillivray (born 1987), member of Cape Breton musical group "The Cottars" Ciarán Mac Mathúna (1925–2009), Irish broadcaster and music expert Ciaran...

dorˌmɑn]) was an office in the government of Anglo-Saxon England. During the 11th century, it evolved into the title of earl. The Old English word ealdorman...

the Crofters' Act did not grant security of tenure to cottars or break up large estates. As a result, the Scottish Highlands continues to have the most...

the land under the feudal system. As part of the contract with the lord of the manor, they were expected to spend some of their time working on the lord's...

includes not only the obligations of the warrior nobility but the obligations of all three estates of the realm: the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry,...

Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling...

gerefa) was an administrative official serving the king or a lesser lord in a variety of roles. After the Norman Conquest, it was an office held by a man...

Examples in the poems of Robert Burns attest its presence also in 18th-century Scots: Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride. ("The Cottar's Saturday Night")...

Villagers Lord of the manor Freeholders or yeomanry. Proprietors of large and small properties Copyholders. Tenant farmers Cottagers/cottar Squatters Farm...

an influx of captives in the wake of the social chaos caused by the barbarian invasions of the Western Roman Empire. With the continuation of Roman legal...

“On Fire” is the second CD released by Cape Breton's Celtic quartet, The Cottars. It was recorded at Lakewind Sound Studios in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia...

the rise of the yeoman longbow archers during the Hundred Years' War, and the yeoman outlaws celebrated in the Robin Hood ballads. Yeomen joined the English...

at the third level in lay society, below the king and ealdormen. Thanage refers to the tenure by which lands were held by a thane as well as the rank...

In the Kingdom of England from the 12th to 15th centuries, a franklin was a member of a certain social class or rank. In the Middle English period, a...

and elderly dependents, and other household errands. The term "domestic service" applies to the equivalent occupational category. In traditional English...

necessities of the cottars had gone far to drive them to exasperation". Millennia of continuous occupation notwithstanding, many of the remoter islands...

quickly became the staple. From the journeyman down to the lowest cottar, meat was an expensive commodity, and would be consumed rarely. For the lower echelons...

title. In the United Kingdom, esquire historically was a title of respect accorded to men of higher social rank, particularly members of the landed gentry...

free, while the feudal system made others serfs, slaves or bordars and cottars. Henry II, who became the monarch in 1154, established the common law by...

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villeins. The term may also refer to the free peasants of the Kingdom of France, part of an ordering of classes with legal privileges who constituted the third...

for John the Baptist within Christianity, and especially within the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Forerunner (album), by Canadian band The Cottars Forerunner...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homage (/oʊˈmɑːʒ/) (from Medieval Latin hominaticum, lit. "pertaining to a man") in the Middle Ages was the ceremony in...

California, United States Cotter River, a river in the Australian Capital Territory McCotter, a surname The Cottars, a Canadian musical group Kotter (disambiguation)...