Officer

A leader among his contemporaries. Officers can be nobles or commoners. An Officer of the Court (steward, butler, constable, etc.) has major responsibilities for his liege lord. An Officer of a Manor (bailiff, falconer, reeve, etc.) has major responsibilities for the running of the manor.

1. Bailiff - A Bailiff was a person of some importance who undertook the management of manors
2. Reeve - A Reeve was a manor official appointed by the lord or elected by the peasants
3. Millers - Most manors had windmills or watermills. The right to mill was in the gift of the Lord of The Manor.
4. Servants - Servants were house peasants who worked in the lord's manor house, doing the cooking, cleaning, laundering, and other household chores
5. Serf - Medieval Serfs were peasants who worked his lord's land and paid him certain dues in return for the use of land, the possession but not the ownership of which was heritable. Dues were usually in the form of labor on the lord's land. Medieval Serfs were expected to work for approximately 3 days each week on the lord's land.
6. Villein - A peasant or villein was a low status tenant who worked as an agricultural worker or laborer. A peasant or villein usually cultivated 20-40 acres of land
7. Cottager: A low class peasant with a cottage, but with little or no land who generally worked as a simple laborer