Have you considered that Roberts's opinion is a reversion to medievalism. You are not compelled to contribute 1/3 of your time to working on your liege lord's estates and having your wife provide him a few nights entertainment. You can merely pay this tax of 1/2 of your goods and chattal and you are free to go your way.
The French Revolution wheeled out the guillotine to deracinate this kind of logic and here we have it back.
The man is the kind of person that King Lear's fool made a mockery of.
Who needs French medieval rules when you can have Bostonian Redcoat squatters wagging the country with a "living breathing Constitution" and a uneducated populous spending their time fighting over the colors blue and red.
Even Paul Revere would have to agree...after this week, life is good in the Kingdom. So stay positive, have a little cake and make a toast to the French...but always keep in mind, in America, our rulers do it better.