>> >>the Black Death didn't work out so good
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>> Um, the serfs could demand better wages because there was less ovvem.
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Can we expect a new Statute of Labourers post Covid
“Against the malice of servants who were idle and unwilling to serve after the pestilence without taking outrageous wages it was recently ordained by our lord the king, with the assent of the prelates, nobles and others of his council, that such servants, both men and women, should be obliged to serve in return for the salaries and wages which were customary”
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