Practice question · Estimate
A tenant owes three days of week-work in a seven-day week. Estimate the percentage of the year’s days he owes to the lord’s demesne.
Estimate on a scale from 0 per cent (0) to 100 per cent (100).
Hints
- Three days out of every seven, expressed as a percentage.
- Three sevenths.
Show the answer
43 (answers within ±3 count)
Why
About 43 per cent. The number is the whole argument about the seigneurie in one figure: nearly half the tenant’s available labour, before rent, before the mill charge and before the tithe. Whether or not "feudalism" is a useful word, this arrangement existed and is measurable.
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