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of which (if I have observed rightly) have been 

 thought worthy of mention in the Government 

 index of said vol. Some entries (p. 89) re the 

 old aid of the Knights, two of them dating to the 

 time of debtors' fathers; (p. 132) the g ift of the 

 Knights of Durham Bishoprick ; (p. 153) the old 

 aid of the Knights, of Baldwin de Redvers ; (p. 1 54) 

 the like of the Bp. of Exeter ; (p. 159) the old aid 

 of the Knights ; (p. 49) the like ; and (p. 84) the 

 old aid of the Knights of Croyland Abbey (see 

 also Scutage Rolls, Bdle. n, No. 9, where in 

 48 Hen. III. the Abbot fines in 50 marcs). Again 

 Knight service /. Hen. I. is seen in the Peterbro' 

 Chronicle (Camd. Soc. 1849); a systematic com- 

 mutation of lay service at so much per fee prior to 

 Hen. II. seems highly probable rather than fully* 

 established; the author of "Feudal England" 

 (pp. 268-9) has given 2 references under the name 

 of Escuage, the first* of which is reviewed in 

 Vol. II. Red Book Exch. (Pref. Rolls Ser.) ; Madox 

 has given another in his most excellent History of 

 the Exchequerf (p. 435 ed. 1711), and yet a 

 further one may be found in Stephen's Charter tc 



: The payment of 60 by the Bp. Norwich (40 fees) 

 seems to have no connection with "the Ely contribution" 

 (Feudal England, p. 270), and the reference is quite indefinite: 

 but I consider (as a matter of opinion), that the entry in Pipe 

 Roll 31 Hen. I., refers to a reduction of the Ely "service," 

 memory of which is preserved in the copy of the Charter, as 

 cited, p. 268, Feudal England. 



f Westminster MSS. : Mandate of H. the King to Wm. 

 Const, of Chester that the Monks of Westminster should 

 hold Peritona (D. B. 247^ under that Abbey), as free from 

 escuagc, etc., as the father of said Wm. first conceded same 

 to them. 



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