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.
Medieval men were what they were raised to be. They were taught by fathers and they were taught by mothers also. Men and women accepted the ideas that they were given from antiquity without the types of questioning consideration we have seen since the nineteenth century. They believed their attitudes were right and proper and did not see a reason to change. There is a link below to a question about women's rights in the middle ages.
The medieval cottar is believed to have been a simple serf, who lived by farming and who had limited lands to farm and no special office. The role of the cottar was to grow food. The word cottage originally meant the home of a cottar.
The trade helped because of the imports given in the process. it gave needed materials to build structures. It also gave food for the society and economic stores in the process giving a chance for employment as well.
The medieval attitude was that difference in class and status was God-given and part of the natural order of things. The idea that "all men are created equal" was an Enlightenment concept, so an idea that only came about in the late 18th century. It would be another 100 years - and in many places even much longer, think of women's legal and political rights - before the concept of equality really took root.
In Medieval England, tradesmen in the same craft joined a local guild. This guild acted like a modern union in many ways. All tradesmen were required to join their respective guilds. The guilds also provided training for apprentices who were accepted into their programs.