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new : eight of these charters may be found on 

 pp. 44, 415, and 416 of the T. de N., and 

 another (that of Ro. Beauchamp of Hache) is to 

 be seen along with the King's writ in Madox's 

 Form. Ang. I give an extract from the return of 

 the Abbot of St. Edmund's to the Exchequer, who 

 commences by naming the precept of the King, as 

 to certifying how much of the aid for the marriage 

 of his sister had been paid to the Exch. and how 

 much to be paid, how many fees, in what counties 

 and vills, and what of old and of new, and follows 

 " Nos concessisse domino Regi sexies viginti marcas. 

 Ex quibus jam solvimus ad scaccarium medietatem 

 scilicet sexaginta marcas alia vero medietas adhuc 

 restat solvenda. Feoda vero militum de veteri 

 feoffamento habemus quadraginta que tenemus in 

 capite de domino Rege etsi respondemus pro illis pro 

 temporis necessitate. Alia vero xij feoda habemus 

 de novo feoffamento que capta sunt et feoffata de 

 nostris propriis dominicis. Et pertinent ad nostram. 

 Que nulli respondent nee unquam responderent nee 

 respondere debent nisi soli abbati Sancti Eadmundi. 

 Et ipse abbas nemini respondet de illis predicta 

 vero feoda partim sunt in Norff' et Suff' partim 

 in Essex'. In quibus vero villis sint constituta vel 

 quid et quantum in quo loco Deus novit." Now 

 be it observed that the Edmondsbury service was 

 40, and that in 1168 there were some 52^ old and 

 \ new fees ; hence it appears the Abbot in 1235 

 understood by new feoffment any surplus fees 

 beyond what he was wont to answer for to a 

 scutage, and also he seems to have compounded 

 at a rate equal to 60 fees ; likewise the Abbot of 



