4. The Witan was displaced by the Great Council, the members of which were the king's vassals; therefore with him, not against him.
5. The king's use of shire-reeves, personal dependants, who led the military levy of the counties and collected the king's taxes.
6. What were the chief taxes? From them came much political trouble in later times by attempts to rectify abuses in connection with them.
7. The teacher may describe the ceremony of the feudal oath.
The important points of each step should be written on the black-board as they are described or developed.
(The decay of the Feudal System in England may be the topic of another lesson.)
SEIGNIORIAL TENURE
The aim of the lesson is to give the pupils a knowledge of the method of land tenure introduced into Canada by the French; to enable them to trace the effects of this system upon the progress of the people and the development of the country; and to increase their interest in the present system of tenure.