Leave
Take orders
Take orders verb - Receive and be expected to follow directions or commands.
Both terms in one sentence
- After that term, they could leave, and while they were obligated to generally assist their liege they were (in theory) their liege's equals—hence why nobles are called "peers"—and thus didn't have to take orders, so battle-planning involved negotiations over who would do what.
Source: My Master, Right or Wrong
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