The big problem for us was that we had to do the work for the Lord before we could do our own work. When our Lord’s crops needed to be harvested, our's needed to be harvested, too. The Lord would give us very good food when we worked good for him.
We had to pay taxes and fees. The Lord decided how much taxes we would pay from how much land the we had, usually 1/3 of their value. We had to give money for fees when we got married, had a baby, or there was a war. Money was not very common then, so usually we paid by giving food instead of money.
Sometimes we had to pay money because of
something we had done. We had to pay a fine
when he inherited money or property. We had to
pay a fine if he became a priest or monk. We
had to pay a fine if his children went to the
city instead of staying and being a serf.
We to give their best animal to their
lord when they died so that their children
would get to stay on the land.
We had to pay to use the lord’s grain
mill and bread oven. We had to pay to use
the lord’s carts to carry their produce.We
were very angry about that.