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Peasants did not have to pay knights, except for rent if the knights were their landlords, or unless something quite illegal was going on.

Peasants paid their rent in various forms. One would have been labor, and in this case they did work for the landlord in terms of hours per week at jobs they were assigned. Another way they paid rent was to provide a part of the crop, in which case the rent was often paid in wheat, since it was a commodity with a fairly established price and easily judged quality. A third way to pay rent was money, but this appeared at the end of the Middle Ages. Looking at the source I usually use for wages and prices, I do not see rent for a peasant. I do see that a cottage rented for about 5s per year, which would have been 5d per month in a time when a common laborer got about 1d per day to work, and the rent of a cottage might have included the fields associated with it. This would mean that the peasant paid his landlord about a quarter of his earnings.

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