Freemen in a sentence

As well as the Freemen of Stamford, who own Freemen’s Meadow, the Kiwanis have had to approach the town council, the district council and the Environment Agency about the plans.

Norris, formally also of Freemen’s Way, waved to his family in the public gallery as he was led to the cells.

He said Councillors, Aldermen and Freemen are to attend the meeting.

For example, from 1849 to 1861 the freemen were relentlessly persecuted by planters by the imposition of unbearable taxation, and vandalism of their drainage and other village infrastructure.

Berber freemen were also recruited.

Certain other office-holders such as senior clerics and Freemen of the Cinque Ports were deemed barons.

Descendants of slaves were often practically indistinguishable from freemen.

Eventually this second-generation group ended employment with the company and became "freemen" traders and trappers.

Feudalism also became more widespread as freemen sought protection by swearing allegiance to a lord.

For example, London's Guildhall became the seat of the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation, the world’s oldest continuously elected local government citation whose members to this day must be Freemen of the City.

He had travelled widely and, in his eyes, the living standard among freemen in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland was worse than that among slaves in the West Indies.

He permitted men of all classes to come to Rome as citizens, including slaves and freemen without distinction.

In 1640, 39 "freemen" (men who had full citizenship and voting rights) signed another agreement that declared their determination "still to hold forth liberty of conscience".

In ancient Greece sculptors and painters were held in low regard, somewhere between freemen and slaves, their work regarded as mere manual labour.

Leidang fleet-levy laws remained in place for most of the Middle Ages, demanding that the freemen should build, man and furnish ships for war if demanded by the king ships with at least 20 or 25 oar-pairs (40 50+ rowers).

Lyrics Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer, To add something more to this wonderful year; To honour we call you, as freemen not slaves, For who are so free as the sons of the waves?

Most bishops had a different attitude toward freemen and nobles.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.

Slaves were recruited by purchase abroad, from captives taken in war, or by freemen degraded for debt or crime.

The court was held by day and, unless the session was declared secret, all freemen, whether initiated or not, were admitted.