[357]. Ibid., I. 318.
[358]. Ibid., I. 321.
[359]. The first of the long series of charters and confirmations which contains it seems to be the Inspeximus of 10th October, 1297, which in all probability merely recognized officially a rule long demanded as simple justice by the barons and public opinion. (See Madox, I. 318, Pollock and Maitland, I. 289, and Bémont, Chartes, p. 47.)
[360]. See note by editors of Dialogus, p. 238. The Petition of the Barons in 1258 (Sel. Charters, 382) protested against this, and the practice was discontinued.
[362]. It is possible to argue that the custom as to socage was already too well settled to require any confirmation. Glanvill (IX. c. 4) stated the relief for socage at one year’s annual value. It is not absolutely clear, however, whether this restriction applied to the crown. Further, no custom, however well established, was sufficiently safe against John’s greed, to make confirmation unnecessary.
[363]. See Littleton, Tenures, II. viii., s. 154, and Madox, I. 321, who cites the case of a certain Henry, son of William le Moigne, who was fined in £18 for the relief of lands worth £18 a year held "by the serjeanty of the King’s Lardinary."
[365]. C. Pearson, Hist. of Engl., I. 375, note 2.
[366]. J. H. Round, Feudal England, 295.