Source.—Roger de Hoveden, Vol. II., p. 261. Bohn's Libraries. G. Bell & Sons.
1. Whoever has a fiefdom of one knight, let him have a coat of mail, a helmet, a shield and a lance; and let every knight have as many coats of mail and helmets and shields and pikes as he has knights fiefdoms in his demesne.
3. Also let all burghers and the whole community of freemen have a doublet, an iron headpiece and a pike.
7. Let no Jew keep his coat of mail or his hauberk, but sell them or give them or get rid of them in some way, provided that they remain in the service of the King.
8. Let no man carry arms outside England except by order of the King.
THE SALADIN TITHE, 1188.
Source.—Benedictus Abbas, Vol. II., 31.
The King, on the advice of his faithful counsellors, chose clerks and laymen in whose wisdom he could confide and sent them through each county to collect the tenths according to the decree, which obtained in his land across the Channel. But from each town in the whole of England he had all the richer inhabitants chosen, for instance, from London 200 and from York 100 and from the other towns according to their number and wealth. All were ordered to present themselves to him on given days at given places. From these he took a tenth of their incomes and their real property. The valuation was effected by his officers, who had knowledge of their incomes and their goods. If he found any rebellious, he at once had them imprisoned and kept in chains until they had paid the uttermost farthing. He dealt in a similar manner with the Jews of his land, from whom he acquired an enormous sum of money.