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to marry 19 Hen. III., the Gascony escuage 

 26 Hen. III. and an ordinary aid (as 29 and 38 

 Hen. III.) and escuage (as 42 Hen. III.) was that 

 in the two former payment was made on all fees 

 or all that could be found, in the latter on those 

 only recognised in the renders of the tenants' ante- 

 cessors in 14 Hen. II. ; what old and new feoff- 

 ment meant 19 and 26 Hen. III. is not significant, 

 and was perhaps differently understood by divers 

 Nonhum- tenants, but in the 1242 Inquisitions Northumber- 

 quSon?' land (p. 381, etc., Testa de N.) old feoffments are 

 26Hen.iu, those made in and before Hen. II., new ones from 

 /. John, which is to be seen by reference to the 

 Inquisitions of 12-13 J onn (T. de N., pp. 392-3, 

 under heading T. de N.), which latter are abstracted 

 in the L. R. (pp. 562-5, v. ii. Rolls Series). 

 There is not the least witness of general inquisi- 

 tions of old and new feoffment prior to 1242 

 (saving the case of the aid to marry 19 Hen. III.) 

 Evidence where the evidence seems to have consisted partly 

 de f charters of the magnates (referred to in the 

 sequel), and partly of inquiries made by the Sheriff ; 

 as examples the Bp. Durham (service 10) pays on 

 150, 19 Hen. III., is noted for 10, 26 Hen. III. ; 

 the Bp. Hereford pays on 18, 19 Hen. III. (ser- 

 vice 1 5), and the Archbp. of York is noted for 20 

 (his service) 26 Hen. III.; but the monastic houses 

 on both occasions (in theory) pay on all their 

 fees; thus 19 Hen. III. Abbotsbury (i) pays on 

 3|, Cerne (2) on 5, Pershore (2) on 5, and also in 

 26 Hen. III., when Ramsey (4) pays on 33^, 

 Winchcombe (2) on 5, and Malmesbury (3) on 6f , 

 but perhaps sometimes these were compositions. 



