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 328 HISTORY OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE supervised the field works of the day-labourer and of the so-called ' Fione,' who had to give a specified number of days of labour to the landlord. The ad- ministration also employed a messenger, a salt inspector, a bridge toll-taker with three assistants, and two bailiffs. We also find mention of a head-forester and his assistant, an agriculturist and assistant, two meadow-masters, three vineyard-masters, a cook, a scullion, a baker, a miller, with their assistants, the house-waiter, cheese- maker, the dairymaid, a cowherd, and also a cooper, a fisherman, and a brewer. The duties of each are ex- plicitly set forth. In this long list of servants we find only two women mentioned, so that what we now con- sider woman's work must have been done bv men. All knew how to read and write. The manor-house, which stood in the town, contained the chief house and chapel, a second house, the wardrobe, the granary, the stable, two cowhouses, a barn, a shed, servants' quarters, a prison, a bakery, a brewhouse, and a bath-house. The principal superintendent lived in the chief house, where, according to the simple style of living of the age, he appropriated only two rooms, the chief luxury of which consisted in glazed windows, doors that shut, and good floors ; with him lived the secretary and keeper of seals. In the second house were rooms for visitors and the eating-room of the accountant. Of all the buildings, the most important was the granary, where the threshed corn, wheat, barley, rye, oats, vetches, rapeseed and hops lay. Three times a year the head-baker was obliged to turn over the corn, and once a year to winnow it, in order to prevent the ravages of the corn worm. With the assistance of the porter, the forester, the agriculturist, and an expert