Katherine (2006)
“They had managed to celebrate this feast with some of the traditional lavishness, thanks to Hugh's and Ellis's skill at hunting. There had been venison enough for all the village, and a wild boar that Hugh had slain across the Trent in Sherwood Forest.
The sun shone, there had been dancing on the Green, while to the little church for blessing the people had brought their samples from the harvest: oats, barley, peas, beans and flax plants, in woven baskets.
It was at Gibbon's suggestion that the... Swynfords made special effort to celebrate the feast day for their tenants. Hugh, intent on his departure, would never have thought of it.
In June the manor court had been held in the great Hall, and Hugh had dealt out irritable punishment to his serfs, saying that as all had grown lax there was no use inquiring into the merits of each case. He exacted immediate payment of the overdue rents and fines and clapped those who asked for time into the stocks, besides personally flogging others. He decreed boon - work at once on his home fields and would have withdrawn every able - bodied man, woman and child from necessary work on their own plots, had not Gibbon intervened, pointing out that total failure of the tenants' crops would hardly benefit the manor.MoreLess
The sun shone, there had been dancing on the Green, while to the little church for blessing the people had brought their samples from the harvest: oats, barley, peas, beans and flax plants, in woven baskets.
It was at Gibbon's suggestion that the... Swynfords made special effort to celebrate the feast day for their tenants. Hugh, intent on his departure, would never have thought of it.
In June the manor court had been held in the great Hall, and Hugh had dealt out irritable punishment to his serfs, saying that as all had grown lax there was no use inquiring into the merits of each case. He exacted immediate payment of the overdue rents and fines and clapped those who asked for time into the stocks, besides personally flogging others. He decreed boon - work at once on his home fields and would have withdrawn every able - bodied man, woman and child from necessary work on their own plots, had not Gibbon intervened, pointing out that total failure of the tenants' crops would hardly benefit the manor.MoreLess
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