The fines and other profits were to go to the manorial lord.

In such tones the tenantry might once have begged their manorial lord for lower rents in hard times.

These relations would most likely take place when the Norman manorial lord already belonged to some cult of the same nature in France.

Both parties gained by an arrangement which converted the manorial lord into a landlord and the serf into a free tenant-farmer paying rent.

Frederick had allowed serfage to continue because it gave him in each manorial lord a task-master whom he could employ in his own service.