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are proveably old ones. Now the Moubrai fee 

 (Hen. II. III.) is always rendered between 88 

 and 89 fees (usually 88|- fees), and in the Inquisi- 

 tions 12-14 J onn (pp. 469-574, L. R., v. ii.) it is 

 curious to observe 60^ fees (the \ fee held of the 

 Archbp. of York) are given by the Yorks sheriff, 

 and just 28 by those of Lines, Leicester, Cam- 

 bridge, Hunts, and Warwick ; Dugdale (quoting 

 ancient authors) informs of the additions of the 

 Northern Baronies of Moubrai and Stutteville 

 t. Hen. I., and these would presumably pass 

 with all the Knights those lords had enfeoffed. 

 The Patent Roll of 20 Hen. VI. cites a grant of 

 Massamshire from Earl Alan to Rog. de Moubrai, 

 by the same service as his father Nigel de Albini 

 held it, to wit i fee, and then proceeds to give the 

 boundaries of his grant, which method may have 

 run parallel with subinfeudation by hides and 

 carucates, as where 14 car. make a fee (Skipton 

 Fee, L. R., 1166). 



Few better estimates have been made than 

 Pearson's (cited in " Feudal England," p. 293) viz. 

 6,400 Knights' fees of 5 Hides each, stipulating 

 for an average, and not a uniform 5-6 Hides ; as 

 an eclectic table is of doubtful value, the following Method of 



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explanations or the 1166-8 tenures are given fees, 

 such entries in the Red Book (Barons' Carts.) as ' Hen IL 

 are of date posterior to t. Hen. II. are omitted, 



comprising lands (I think) in Essex, Lines, N'ants, Leics, 

 Notts, Warwick, and Yorks (in the 4 last named also in Pipe 

 Roll 31 Hen. I.); Nigel (his father), and Win. de Albini 

 (Pincerna\ appear to have been younger sons of Henry of 

 Cainho \ut //.), who presumably was himself the son or 

 brother of Nigel the Domesday tenant (vide D. B. ; Ord. fit., 

 and Chron. Abingdvri). 



