As factor, Sellar was responsible for buying relief supplies for the tenantry. Relations between the abbey and its tenantry had always been tempestuous. The plantation owners adapted to the situation by incorporating wage labour, tenantry and contract farming. Browne was born in Robert's Tenantry, St Michael, Barbados. Abbot Peter's quarrels were not with just his tenantry. Failing to find him, Neville resorted to threatening the Percy tenantry who were in residence. The tenantry of the Earl were provided with accommodation to view the proceedings. While a section of Bhumihars were landowners, the vast majority belonged to tenantry.