A Robin Hood lite episode. The bulk of the action is carried by Friar Tuck.
When serf Tom Joyner is seriously injured to get a cat from a tree. The cat belonging to the spoilt son of Sir Charles Bixby.
The bailiff and Bixby realise that due to the Heriot tax. Bixby will inherit Tom's valuable goods like his oxon.
Only some days later, Tom makes a miraculous recovery, by which time everything of value has been taken by Bixby.
After Tom goes missing. The bailiff and Bixby conspire to have a jury have his legally declared dead.
Even when Tom later stands alive and well in front of both. Friar Tuck sees an opportunity for other villagers to avoid the Heriot tax.
After all a man could not be declared dead twice.
The episode was a little to silly. Curiously there actually as a Heriot tax. It began with the right of a lord in feudal Europe to seize a serf's horse, clothing, or both, upon his death. It arose from the tradition of the lord lending a serf a horse or armour or weapons to fight while in battle. So when the serf died, the lord would reclaim his property.
When serf Tom Joyner is seriously injured to get a cat from a tree. The cat belonging to the spoilt son of Sir Charles Bixby.
The bailiff and Bixby realise that due to the Heriot tax. Bixby will inherit Tom's valuable goods like his oxon.
Only some days later, Tom makes a miraculous recovery, by which time everything of value has been taken by Bixby.
After Tom goes missing. The bailiff and Bixby conspire to have a jury have his legally declared dead.
Even when Tom later stands alive and well in front of both. Friar Tuck sees an opportunity for other villagers to avoid the Heriot tax.
After all a man could not be declared dead twice.
The episode was a little to silly. Curiously there actually as a Heriot tax. It began with the right of a lord in feudal Europe to seize a serf's horse, clothing, or both, upon his death. It arose from the tradition of the lord lending a serf a horse or armour or weapons to fight while in battle. So when the serf died, the lord would reclaim his property.
