84 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



p. clviii) of escuage might be to enable the lord to 

 justice his men, which appears scarcely applicable 

 above, nor has he cited any fines " lest they 

 transit " in this reign. Information is needed as 

 to the difference in obligation of church and lay 

 barons, also to what countries the capital tenants 

 owed to go, in what cases there was option of 

 escuage ; the obligations of the mesne tenants to 

 their lords, as regards scutage and service, and in 

 what fees the latter were bound to act at their own 

 charges. The author of " Feudal England " has 



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cited the case of the Edmondsbury tenants t. 

 Ric. I., and the course taken by the Abbot there- 

 anent; the following illustrate the feudal service of 

 the House at Peterboro', who ought as by 60 fees: 



How per- 3 John. The Abbot pays 120 marcs, and owes a palfrey, for army of Normandy 

 formed bv of A 2. (Rot. Cane.) 



Peterbro 2 H fn - m~ May come with 30 Knts., (Stamford), Newark (Scut. Rolls Y)- 

 Abbey. 5 Men. III. Has escuage of fees held of him Biham (Cl. i. 475^). 



7 Hen. III. Had 6 Knights by precept and to have J his scutage Montgomery 

 [Ji Esc. Rolls]. 



1229. Seems to have paid esc. Kery : C. Pet. 



1230, 14 Hen. 111. The Abbot fines in 100 marcs and pays 180 m. of scutage, for 



the Brittany exercitus ; scutage 3 m. per fee, io our ist passage. (Chron. 



Pet.) 



1230, 13 Hen. III. Pays 180 marcs scutage (C. P.) after first passage. 

 1235, IQ Hen. III. The Abbot returns 63^ fees, pays on 60, and is debited for 3$. 



(Testa de N., p. 38.) 

 29 Hen. III. r. s. 60 fees performed by i Knt., 8 seruientes (Rot. Mar.); quit by 



writ of 40 fees (30 Hen. III., Pipe); pays 60 marcs escuage (3 tn. per fee, 



hence on 60 less 40 fees), army and scutage of Gannock (Hist. Pel.). 

 2Q Hen. III. Pays 60 m. only (2 m. per fee), to the aid to marry (Hist.). 

 1264. The Abbot's Knts., joining the Barons, he pays 300 m. (and 30 m. queen 



gold), for defect of service, and transgression after Lewes he has to fine 



with the Barons (Hist. ', vide etiain p. 93 under 49 Hen. III., where the 



entry above seems to be given in a different way). 

 7263. After Evesham, the Abbot pays the King 500 m., the Queen 50 ;., Prince 



Edw. 300 m., and also to others (Hist., see also note, p. 100). 

 1277, S Ed. I. The Abbot fines in 250 marcs for 5 fees, and 25 m. Queen's gold, 



for the first Welsh war, his tenants having declined to go except at the 



Abbot's costs. (Chron. Pet.) 

 I2JS, 6 Ed. I. The King conceded scutage at 403. per fee, or the above war, 



which the Sheriff was to cause the Abbot to have. (Chron. t'et.) 



