Today - the average middle class person pays 50%+ in taxes when all is said and done (federal, local, state, property, SS, sales, etc.)
It was 33% of everything I think. If they went fishing they would have to give part of their catch.
Plus they could not move to another fief, they were bound to the land.
Yeah, but a serf couldn’t leave and he had to let the master have first night privileges, if he got married.