The majority of the Saxons were either a part of the common class or a part of the working class. Everybody else in the Kingdom was either a thane, an earl, or royalty. The working class worked the land of the thanes by farming it and raising livestock. The working class also formed the levy group, which was the part of the army that was not constantly employed. The people common class were basically slaves. They were paid for their work by getting a place to live, but, unlike the working class who could move from place to place, the common class folks were bound to the piece of land that they worked on. There were also the house carls, which were the full time army. These people were full-time workers for the thanes, or the landowners. The thanes made sure that everything was always running smoothly on their particular lands. The Thanes were also the lowest class of people that made up the royal court, other than their pages. The thanes were governed by the earls, who ruled much larger “Earldoms”, for an example, the Earldom of Wessex. The Earls had only one superior, and that was the King. The King would call together all the Earls when the kingdom was in times of war, and then the Earls, in turn, would call on their thanes, and then the thanes would call upon the house carls and the levies that were on duty at the time to come to the war front.