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Freeholders from the Old Country Railway (8)

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yeomanry

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(Other definitions for yeomanry that I've seen before include "Class of small freeholders cultivating their own land" , "Old social class" , "Body of small freeholders" , "Guards" , "Class of freeholders (historical)" .)

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