46 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



i bovate (^ of I car.) of the Fee of Moubrai of 

 the King, whence 28, etc., and therefore owes 2^d. 

 to the aid, the one in double proportion to the 

 other, and having examined each entry of 3 wapen- 

 takes (Yorks) the writer can state that in no other 

 sense is land taxed there than as part of a fief. 

 For defect of service (fees were frequently unable 

 to be found) doubtless the King had a right to 

 claim, the Servitia being based on the render of 

 the 14 Hen. II. Pipe Rolls ; but the services of 

 i ,000 Hides in military tenure would be a phrase 

 of no meaning, and would have to be ascertained 

 from former inquisitions or returns. 



Reciting the explanation of the Barons' Cer- 

 tificates in Feudal England^ which with a slight 

 amendment appears warranted by the Charters, 

 definite if disputed services were due by the 

 immediate tenants to the King in respect of their 

 holdings, which debt is named more or less dis- 

 tinctly in some half these documents. The royal 

 enquiry had been not as to the service due, but 

 how many Knights had been enfeoffed by i Dec., 

 1,135 (th 6 day * n w hich Hen. I. was quick and 

 dead), how many since, and how many (if any) 

 were due on the " dominicum." The former are 

 specified as fees of the old feoffment in contra- 

 distinction to those of new (Dec. 2, 1135 onwards), 

 and the last enquiry refers to the balance between 

 the service and the actual number of Knights 

 enfeoffed, if such deficiency existed. The term 

 " dominicum," tho' usually applied to land in the 

 hands of the lord in 1166, is also applied to 

 the non-infeuded portion of the fee prior to 1135 



