Liberal Forum

Often a few years of crop failure, a war, or brigandage might (drugged up) leave a person unable to make his own way. In such a case, he could strike a bargain with a lord of a manor. In exchange for gaining protection, his service was required: in labour, produce, or cash, or a combination of all. These bargains became formalised in a ceremony known as "bondage", in which a serf placed his head in the lord's hands, akin to the ceremony of homage where a vassal placed his hands between those of his overlord. These oaths bound the lord and his new serf in a feudal contract and defined the terms of their agreement.

I will to ____________ be true and faithful, and love all which it loves and shun all which it shuns, according to the laws of ______ and the order of the world.

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