[allmendream]

Yes, and the practice of slicing open a peasants guts to warm your hands on a cold winter hunt was frowned upon by the nobility who presided over a populace noticeably smaller than them due to malnutrition.

There are no rights that a King cannot decide don't apply. Kings can kill their subjects at will.

As I would kill any man who tried to exercise power over me as King - the only tribute LEAD not gold.

The feudal obligation was between a Knight to a Lord and a Lord to a King - the obligation of a serf was to the land and they hand no rights at all that were not subject to the local Knight Lord or King or any of their unscrupulous relations.

But it is futile. Get busy drawing up your currency Norton.

Monarchy is going nowhere - especially here.

Move to “the Kingdom” of Saudi Arabia if you are so enamored of the concept.

and my posterity forget you ever were our countryman.

And they will.

Nowhere.

[annalex]

In fact, they had courts where they presided. The system was legalistic; abuses, of course happened.