Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

by John Horace Round

[¹¹⁵] vide supra, p. 118 note.

[¹¹⁶] 'Illud commune verbum in ore singulorum tunc temporis divulgatum.'

[¹¹⁷] See Red Book of the Exchequer, pp. 5, 8.

[¹¹⁸] See list of church fiefs.

[¹¹⁹] His carta is corrupt.

[¹²⁰] 'Abbas Gloucestrie tenet omnes terras in libera elemosina.'—Testa, p. 77.

[¹²¹] 'A new impost specially levied (1156) upon some of the ecclesiastical estates, under the name of scutage' (Norgate's Angevin Kings, i. 433). 'The famous scutage, the acceptance of a money composition for military service, alike for the old English service of the fyrd' [this, of course, is a misconception], 'and for the newer military tenures, dates from this (1159) time' (Freeman's Norman Conquest, v. 674). 'The term scutage now (1156) first employed.... As early as his second year (1156) we find him collecting a scutage, a new form of taxation' (Stubbs' Const. Hist., i. 454, 458, 581, 590).

[¹²²] The phrase 'debet scutagium quando currit' is of course, a normal one.

[¹²³] 'Teste Gaufrido Cancellario et Willelmo de Albineio Pincerna et Gaufrido de Clintona et Pagano fil Johannis. Apud Sanctum Petrum desuper Divam.'

[¹²⁴] Cott. MS. Julius A., i. 6, fo. 74a.