Tillers of the soil by necessity, they were forced to pay enormous tributes to absentee landlords in England whose claim to their estates rested upon the title of conquest and confiscation.

由于需要耕种土，他们被迫向英格兰的外主缴纳巨额贡金， 这些主对他们的财产的要于征服和没收的头衔。