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 Journey
with me, after spending most of my life as a peasant farm worker,
and living on nothing but bread and mush, I need to make a better
life for myself. The rent is due at the end of this week, and I'm
leaving before then.
I intend to do a moonlight flit! (In
northern England and Scotland, the word flit can mean ‘to move
house.’ ) 'moonlight flit' is to vacate a house secretly, still
owing rent.
I'm going to miss my home, even if its
just a few wooden supports held together with wattle and daub. Most
farmers are not free and are bound to their land, However I am a villeins
and not a slave, but I need to leave without telling anyone.
 A peasant who,
under the feudal system of land tenure that prevailed in Europe in
the Middle Ages, gave dues and services to a lord in exchange for
land. Villeins were not slaves, and were named as freemen and
freewomen in medieval documents, but they were not free. They and
their land and possessions belonged to the lord of the manor.
They were not free to leave the manor,
and they were subject to a large number of obligations required by
the lord, including work on the lord's demesne two or three days a
week, additional work at harvest, and the payment of manorial dues.
Journey Provisions
Camp Site Weapons
Castle Feast
River Crossing
Market Inn
Fair Joist
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