Obligations of a Villein
From the Domesday Book, 1086 A.D.

Hugh Miller holds 1 virgate of land in villenage by paying thence to the said abbot 3s. 1d. Likewise the same Hugh works through the whole year except 1 week at Christmas, 1 week at Easter, and 1 at Whitsuntide, that is in each week 3 days, each with 1 man, and in autumn each day with two men, performing the said works at the will of the said abbot as in plowing and other work. Likewise he gives 1 bushel of wheat for benseed and 18 sheaves of oats for fodder-corn. Likewise he gives 3 hens and 1 cock yearly and 5 eggs at Easter. Likewise he does carrying to Peterborough and to Jakele and no where else, at the will of the said abbot. Likewise if he sells a brood mare in his court yard for 10s or more, he shall give to the said abbot 4d., and if for less he shall give nothing to the aforesaid.

J.H. Robinson, trans., University of Pennsylvania Translations and Reprints, Vol III, No. 5. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1912.