Oct 19 1341
I've been out all day and to do what? Just to get the rich lord his good old feast every night. My clothes are ragged and I haven't taken a bath in the last month and still I have to give almost all my food to the lord! Even though I get the lord all of his food he still doesn't even volunteer to give me a bit of service except for some protection which the knights give me.
I've been dragging around the oxen, plowing my field, for almost seven hours and I have gotten no rest and neither have the oxen. All I get from god is rain, ice, and snow and blizzards to cool me down even more. I passed out several times because of the exhaustion and I still have to keep working. If I am caught not getting the lord his food since he game me land to grow crops on I will be taught a brutal lesson as I was told.
Tasty Food Abundance in Healthy Europe
Will eat for food
Clothing in historyI wonder what this might be. How could it be much worse than poor treatment and at least ten hours of hard labor every single day? I might find out but to me it sounds like being hit with a whip.
If I am lucky and work at least ten hours a day for three or four days I get to get my own family food for the rest of the week and I might even get some money for once in a life time. I am both lucky to be here and unlucky. At least I'm not dead and I'm not a slave because I chose to be here as for the land that was given to me to be the farmer and grow crops.
Yesterday the conditions were...