Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

by John Horace Round

[¹⁶⁵] 'Willelmus de Siffrewast reddit compotum de lxxvi. sol. et iii. den.... Hugo de Bochelanda reddit compotum de. v. servientibus' (Ibid., p. 75). Compare the love of variety in Domesday, supra, pp. 41, 42, 77.

[¹⁶⁶] 'Scutagium de ii. exercitibus' in next roll (rot. 12 Hen. II).

[¹⁶⁷] Itinerary of Henry II, p. 79 et seq. Compare also the payment from the Giffard fief 'de secundo exercitu' (p. 25).

[¹⁶⁸] Angevin Kings, ii. 180, note.

[¹⁶⁹] Liber Rubeus, p. 193.

[¹⁷⁰] This was the point on which Abbot Sampson insisted, against his knights, at St Edmund's. In the case of Canterbury, the inquest of 1163 would have ascertained the actual number of the archbishop's knights and their fees.

[¹⁷¹] Ignorasse quidem haec [debita] servitia militaria Regis ... successores subsequentium argumento non immerito potuit dubitare: quia cum Rex Henricus ... traderet, a quolibet sui regni milite marcam unam ... exegit, publico praecipiens edicto quod quilibet praelatus et baro quot milites de eo tenerent in capite publicis suis instrumentis significarent' (Liber Rubeus, p. 4).

[¹⁷²] 'Teneo de vobis ... feodum i. militis, unde debeo vobis facere servitium i. militis' (carta).

[¹⁷³] 'De hoc predicto feodo debet Regi v. milites' (carta).

[¹⁷⁴] It must always be remembered that, as explained above, in cases where the requisite number of knights had not been enfeoffed by 1166, the balance de dominio was added to those actually created, as de veteri together.