A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Foreword -- Setting -- Hugo, the Lord's nephew -- Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter -- Will, the plowboy -- A little background : the three-field system -- Alice, the shepherdess -- Thomas, the doctor's son -- Constance, the pilgrim -- A little background : medieval pilgrimage -- Mogg, the villein's daughter -- Otho, the miller's son -- Jack, the half-wit -- Simon, the knight's son -- A little background : the crusades -- Edgar, the falconer's son -- little background : falconry -- Isobel, the Lord's daughter -- Barbary, the mud slinger -- Jacob Ben Salomon, the moneylender's son and Petronella, the merchant's daughter -- A little background : Jews in medieval society -- Lowdy, the varlet's child -- Pask, the runaway -- A little background : towns and freedom -- Piers, the glassblower's apprentice -- Mariot and Maud, the glassblower's daughters -- Nelly, the sniggler -- Drago, the tanner's apprentice -- Giles, the beggar -- Bibliography.