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They were given the rights to buy and sell property, freedom from military service to the lords, a written law that guaranteed the freedom of the townspeople, and the right for an escaped to become free after living a year and a day in the town.

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towns people of the middle ages were as free as we are today,but had to show there loyalty to the kings.

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