The rebels at first demanded no more than that Richard should declare villeinage abolished, and that all feudal dues and services should be commuted for a rent of fourpence an acre.
The payment for tuition varies from fourpence or fivepence to tenpence a month for each child.
In the seventeenth century it provided accommodation for three poor women who received fourpence a week.
Everyone above fifteen years old had to pay fourpence.