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Lord had to protect their serfs because the relationship between the lords and the serfs was one of mutual obligation. It was a sort of contract, under which each party got benefit, but each party had responsibilities.

The serfs gave the lords labor. They also had given up their rights to move away from the manors and were bound to the soil, as they say. This was a two-way thing, however; the serfs did not have a right to move away from the manor, but the lords did not have the right to make them move away from the manor.

They lords gave the serfs fields to farm, a place to live, and protection. The protection they provided was from armies, raiders, and criminals, but it also extended to other things, and might, in theory, include provision of food if there was a famine.

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