[86] The scutages record him as paying always on 15 knights quos recognoscit—the formula for servitium debitum.
[87] His payment on 15 fees in 1161 probably represents his servitium debitum. His total enfeoffments were 23.
[88] Hugh and Stephen de Scalers are the names given in the cartae, but Henry and William de Scalers held the fiefs at the time.
[89] He paid 10 marcs in 1168, though his carta only records 9-5/6 fees.
[90] A difficult fief to deal with, but almost certainly the half of an original Reimes fief owing 20 knights (vide supra).
[91] Apparently 15 at first, and 10 later.
[92] i.e. the Peverel Honour of Bourne, Cambridgeshire (held in Domesday by Picot, the Sheriff), not Bourne, Lincolnshire, held by the Wakes.
[93] He only pays on 5 fees in 1162, and the excess de novo in his carta is accounted for, he says, by the necessities of his position.
[94] This is not proved for the latter fief.
[95] Compare with these allusions to a traditional servitium debitum the significant words of Wace (Roman de Rou):