Childwite

In medieval England, a childwite, or child-wit, was a fine paid by a man to a lord for unlawfully impregnating his bond-woman (female serf). The term was also selectively used of free women.

See also[]

• Manorialism
• Droit du seigneur
• Children of the plantation

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