Feudatories

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feudatory \Feu"da*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Feudatories}.
     A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on
     condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
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           The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal.


                                                    --Blackstone.
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           [He] had for feudatories great princes.  --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
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