A mercenary soldier who owns a lance and no overriding commitment to fight for one side or another in a war. Knights in the Middle Ages, who offered their services for money or on commission, i.e. for plunder. A condottiere.
"I offered Richard the service of my Free Lances."
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1820).
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- Bellow on Steeplejacks
- Two Raging Tyrants
- Slaving in a Flour Mill
- The Mississippi Steamboat Pilot
- Light Horsemen
- The Soldier and the Lawyer
- Electo
- Gamesters and Highwaymen
- Chuckers-Out
- Rhetoricians
- Child Laborers in 19th Century England
- Laborer
- Free Lance
- Trencher-man
- Dummerer
- Boatmen
- Batman and a King's Qualifications
- Regraters
- Wise Women
- Varlets
- Snudge
- Police, Costermongers, and Prostitutes
- Puffers
- Surgeons
- Mufti
- Pollinctor
- A Caster in Plaster
- Exploitation of the Fear of Death
- The Cook and the Tyrant
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