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Example sentences for: vassal

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Unable or unwilling to court the old vassal Malay States or the orang laut pirates to patrol the seas, the new rulers forfeited their predecessors’ commercial monopoly in the Melaka Straits and, with it, command of the Moluccas spice trade.
In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
"In England, the rule was well established that 'no lord could be sued by a vassal in his own court, but each petty lord was subject to suit in the courts of a higher lord.
Edward treated King John as a vassal.
265)--"Serfs Up": "In England, the rule was well established that 'no lord could be sued by a vassal in his own court, but each petty lord was subject to suit in the courts of a higher lord."