[266] Baronia Anglica, p. 150, et seq. Selden, tit. hon. part 2. chap 5. § 8. Bacon, hist. and polit. discourse on the laws of England, part 1. ch. 29.
[267] Coke on Littleton, lib. 2. § 135. Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5. § 19.
[268] Robertson’s hist. of Scotland, book 1. p. 68. Essays on Brit. Antiq. Ess. 2.
[269] Gibson, cod. jur. eccles. Angl. vol. 1. p. 143.
[270] Privileges of the Baronage, by Selden, ch. 2. p. 1537 of the edition of his works by Wilkins. Coke’s institute, second part, p. 49. and 50.; third part, p. 26.-31.
[271] Spelman, voc. Armiger. Du Cange, voc. Armigiri.
[272] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5. § 33. Camden’s introd. to his Britan, 242.
[273] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5. § 39.
[274] Spelm. reliq. dissert. de milite. Coke’s inst. part 2. p. 593.
[275] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5. § 46. Cotton’s posthumous works.