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None. They were tenant farmers on the land owned by the king and his nobles.

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This is true, the land a peasant worked on was actually owned by a lord and the peasant would therefore be required to give a portion of his harvest (about 20% I think) to this lord.

In saying that, the amount of land a single peasant and his family would live on varied from as little as 5 acres to as much as 40 acres. I would estimate that most peasant families would have worked and lived on about 15-20 acres of land.

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According to the site at the link below, an average peasant family of 14th century England had a holding of 12 to 15 acres, but many poor cottars had less than five and worked as laborers to supplement their income.

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Nothing. They were "tenant" farmers which meant they worked the lord of the manor to live on the land and in a small house. If they were lucky the Lord gave them a strip of land to grow a few crops.

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