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LIFE OF THE COMMONERS

A clang in the distance. A clang of metal. There it is again. A clang, almost robot like. Now some thing is in your sight. Its a man, thin as a stick and poorly dressed. His whole face is sweat. Now you realize that he's hoeing. His hands are total blood. This is life as a peasant in the Middle Ages.

As you can see commoners had a hard life. They were the lowest class of people and had to pay the highest amount of taxes. Also they had to work the most. The reason they didn't leave was because there was nowhere else to go. The other land was owned by another king.

They had a small shack that was their "house". Also they had a small field that they had to work on day and night. If the crop season was bad, they starved.

The commoners belonged to neither the nobility nor the church. They were divided into many groups. These groups are: the bailiff, the craftsman, the servants, and the peasants.

The duties of the bailiff were: collecting taxes and managing the fiefdom. The duties of the craftsman are: making candles and shoes and other things for higher class people. The duties of the servants were: preparing beds and other things. The peasants had to farm on the little space they had, and also sold the crops.

The dress of the peasants consisted of a hat made of straw, a leather smock, a long sleaved white shirt, pants, and leather shoes. The hat weighed 2-3 lbs. and the shirt was made of cotton.

The house was really just a shack made of cement, wood, and straw. It had cement on the outside. It had a straw and wood roof. Sticks would hold it up. The inside consisted of two small bedrooms and a small closet. There was a shack that took up one sixth of the house space!