[127] History of the Art of War.
[128] Feudal England, p. 234.
[129] History of the Art of War, p. 360.
[130] History of the Art of War, p. 362.
[131] I use the term, for convenience, in 1168.
[132] “Habeo ij milites et dimidium feffatos de veteri feffamento” (‘Liber Rubeus,’ p. 292).
[133] I may add that Mr. Oman misquotes this carta in his endeavour to extract from it support for his error about the ‘five hides’ (p. 57 above). I place his rendering by the side of the text.
| ... “unusquisque de i virgata. Et ita habetis ij milites et dimidium feodatos.” | ... “only for one virgate each. From them you can make up a knight, and so you have two and a half knights enfeoffed” (p. 362). |
The words I have italicised are, it will be seen, interpolated.
[134] See also Eyton’s ‘History of Shropshire,’ i. 232, and the ‘Cartæ baronum’ (1166) passim.