Ben+Horgan

I chose a peasant because I liked that nobody else picked it in my class.



__ About My Peasant __

Name: **Cornelius Delgato**

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Marital Status: Single

Location: London, England

Religion: Catholic

Role in Feudal Society: Peasant

Reason: My family is very poor.

Activities: Sometimes bakes, sometimes works on a farm, sometimes trains horses

Interests: Plays a small rebec (an instrument that is round and like a violin)

Education Level: Very little, he can read

Occupation (job): Trys to make money to feed himself

**A Day in the Life of Cornelius Delgado, the peasant** Cornelius Delgato lived in a very small cabin on the edge of a farm. It is close to the castle and a short walk to the town and shops. He has no carpet on his floor just dirt. There are no windows just square rocks. Most people who lived in this manor share a house but Cornelius did not.

Morning : Cornelius wakes up at 7:30 AM. He cleans his face with a wet rag and puts on his hat and wraps his feet with rags. He packs his bag that he made out of burlap. Inside the bag there is an apron, a hammer, a pitch fork and some hard whole wheat bread. He eats some cheese for breakfast and drinks the last bit of water which he rarely drinks. The water is from the well. Today he ran out of water so he has to go to the well to get some more. He goes to the well with the buckets. The water will last for a few days. He walks to the well that is 1/2 mile away from his cabin. The roads in this manor are wet and hard. He returns home with the buckets. One is for drinking and the other is for washing. He cleans his tools and sharpens his pitchfork. He sees that the rags on his feet ripped so he quickly grabs another rag to wrap around his feet. He grabs his bag and walks to the bakery in town to start his day. 8:30 AM He gets to the bakery to look at the breads. He stays warm in the bakery with all the ovens. He knows the head baker there so sometimes he gets his food for free. That day Baxter the head baker let Cornelius work in the back for a little extra money. At 11:00 AM he finishes shaping the bread. His next job is cleaning the baking tables for tomorrow. Today one of the bakers gave him bread for lunch. He gets his bag and walks home to have his bread for lunch. After lunch, he collects the branches around his cabin for firewood.

Afternoon : At 12:00 Cornelius walks to the farm to clean the horses. There are two horses. They belong to the king. He gets water from the well to clean the horses. He also puts horseshoes on them. Sometimes he would play horseshoes with the horseshoes. He uses his hammer to put the horseshoes on the horse's feet. He grabs his pitch fork and gets hay from a pile next to the stable. He puts the hay in the stall. He fills the trough with well water. When the horses look nice and the stable is clean he is allowed to leave. 2:00 PM He does some gardening on the farm. He ha s his own piece of land that he farms. He has to plant, plow and clean his strip. Each family has a strip that they use to plant. They are not allowed to plant in anyone else's strip. He needs to get new seeds because animals ate his crops. He walks back to town to trade his bread for some seeds. He gets garlic, lettuce seeds and spinach seeds. Everything he plants is for the king but the lettuce. He gets back to the farm at 3:00 PM. The ground is very wet because it had just rained. He borrows a hoe and digs up the ground. Then he plants his seeds. He then sticks his finger in the ground to make a hole for the seeds. He makes 30 holes. Then he puts two seeds in each hole. After that he covers the holes up with the dirt. He gave them a little bit of water. It is 4:30 PM and he is starting to get tired. He walks to the river because he is the person who makes sure there is no trash or sticks in the river. There is a little bit of trash and no sticks. He grabs his bag and starts to go home. He gets his rebec (a rebec is a instrument that is round and like a violin) and brings it outside his cabin and starts to play. It does not look very nice but it has a good sound.

Night 6:30 PM The king comes out to listen to his rebec. The king likes the sound and asks him if he wants to play in the castle for the queen. He goes in the castle with the king. He plays 30 minutes for the queen and 30 minutes for the lords. The queen and king were happy with the music so they invited him to dinner. His dinner was really nice. It was fish, fancy swan and some ale. Ale is a drink that the kings and lords drink. He finishes dinner at 8:30 PM and the king invited him back to play again. He walks home. He makes a fire from the branches he got. His cabin gets warm fast and there is light from the fire and some candles. He made a hole in his ceiling so the smoke would not catch on fire. He washes his face and gets ready to go to bed. He takes off the rags on his feet and the hat on head. Then he goes to bed.


 * I Wish I Were An Archer **

**__Peasant__** A peasant's rights are different from an archers. A peasant has a lot of jobs so he can buy food to keep him healthy. Some of his jobs are fun and some are hard. One job he does during the day is farming. On the farm he does planting, raking and cleaning two horses. An advantage of being a peasant is he can go anywhere and do anything on his free time. He taught himself how to play music. He is allowed to play his instrument whenever he wants. A peasant gets shelter from the lords and protection from the knights.

A peasant has different responsibiltys than an archer does. A peasant has to farm the land to get money. His job is very hard and if the lords and king do not like what he made he could be killed. The food and drinks of a peasant are not always clean. He could get sick. When a poor person gets sick there are no doctors to save them. Most of the peasants in the Middle Ages were not educated. Only some of them went to school. Some peasants worked together, but most of them stayed alone. Cornelius chose to live and work alone. **__Archer__** I wish I would have picked an archer. An archer's rights are a lot different then a peasant's rights. I like how archers are trained to shoot arrows. One of their rights is they are allowed to kill someone if they need to. It is a hard job to do but the training is fun. An archer must be very quiet or they might be caught and killed. On an archer's free time they can use their skills and go after people in the the town and kings and lords from other castles. Agility is a main part of being an archer. Agility is how quickly you move. From far away an archer's arrow could rip threw a knight's armour. An archer's armour is very important when he is hunting and fighting. An archer's armour is leather. I wish I was a archer.
 * < ** rights ** ||< ** responsibilities ** ||
 * < Cornelius had to get paid when he was done working. ||< Cornelius had to give the town people his food. ||
 * < Cornelius was allowed to play his instrument in the town. ||< He had to farm his family's strip of land. ||
 * <  ||< Cornelius had to respect the king and the castle. ||

An archer has a lot of responsibilities to do like hunting and killing people for the king. An archer's job is very hard to do. He has to be very sneaky or he could get caught and killed. Hunting animals was hard too. Sometimes an archer would go bow fishing and fish were very hard to catch. Training to be a archer takes a lot of practice and time. An archer's bows can be heavy. You have to be very strong to pull back the heavy bows. An archer must be careful where he shoots and he must know who he is shooting at. If the castle an archer lives in is being attacked, he must stop what he is doing and defend the castle.


 * ** rights ** || ** responsibilities ** ||
 * An archer is allowed to hunt animals. || An archer must protect the king. ||
 * An archer can go to archer practice. || An archer must feed the town's people. ||
 * An archer is allowed in the castle. || An archer must watch for any attacks coming. ||

**Modern Day Knight**

Cornelius has a lot of good quailities. For example, he is a fast worker. He does not stop when he is in the middle of a job. He is very determined to finish his job. Cornelius is very smart for being a peasant. He even knows how to read a little. He also can take care of himself. He has many freinds that take care of him and help him in his day. Cornelius has a lot of experience working on a farm. Knowing how to plant in the Middle Ages was ver y important. One peasant is not very important so he does not have to do as many jobs as the king has to.

My modern day character is Saint Brother Andre. I chose Saint Brother Andre because he was poor and lonely. Saint Brother Andre could barely read or write. He was sick for most of his life because his large family was poor. As a baby he was very weak. He tried many jobs that were hard like farming, baking and being a tinsmith. He had no parents when he was 12 years old. Saint Brother Andre was commited to the poor and sick. He would always have a great sense of humor. I think Saint Brother Andre is most like Cornelius Delgato the peasant. Saint Brother Andre was a very catholic person in his life. He prayed to Saint Joseph and to God.

Cornelius Delgato is better than Saint Brother Andre because he has a house of his own and work each day. Cornelius has jobs with farming, helping with horses and helping at a bakery. Saint Brother Andre tried many different jobs and none of them worked for him. Cornelius was strong and determined to finish what he was doing. Saint Brother Andre was weak and got sick easily when he was growing up. Both men were humble and did not brag about themselves. Cornelius worked hard every day to serve the king. Saint Brother Andre worked every day to help God.