Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England

by Frederic William Maitland

[311] Leg. Henr. 55.

[312] Leg. Henr. 10 § 1.

[313] Leg. Henr. 11 § 1. This explains the ‘participatio’ of 9 § 9.

[314] Leg. Henr. 19.

[315] Leg. Henr. 20 § 2.

[316] Leg. Henr. 9 § 4; 20 § 2; 57 § 8; 78 § 2.

[317] Hist. Eng. Law, i. 574.

[318] Hist. Eng. Law, i. 571.

[319] See e.g. Geoffrey Clinton for Kenilworth, Monast. vi. 221: ‘Concedo ... ut habeant curiam suam ... ita libere ... sicut ego meam curiam ... ex concessu regis melius et firmius habeo.’ Robert of Ouilly for Osney, ibid. p. 251: ‘Volo ... quod habeant curiam ipsorum liberam de suis hominibus de omnimodis transgressionibus et defaltis, et quieti sint tam ipsi quam eorum tenentes de omnimodis curiae meae sectis.’

[320] See Liebermann, Leg. Edw. p. 91.