Feudal Statistics 



and further that when Scutage was assized, it might 

 be collected either for the tenant or the King. Turn- 

 ing to the Pipe Roll 7 Ed. I. Yorks, the Scutage 

 of Wales was assized at 403. (^20 seems to have 

 been actually paid then) whereof Ro. Luterell is Double 

 noted with 25 for \i\ fees, with a reference to sSJi ' 

 the last Welsh Scutage, i.e., 42 Hen. III. at a jj lu t s ^ te ^ 

 similar rate : the names seem to have been copied Lutereii 

 from a former roll or rolls with alterations of case ' 

 Christian names (thus Ro. Luterell succeeded in 

 5 Ed. I., his grandfather Andrew being tenant in 

 42 Hen. III.), and hence in 10 Ed. III. it might 

 well appear that the executors of the said Ro. stood 

 charged with the Escuage of 1278. Now it may 

 be remarked that the Luterell property ought the 



acknowledging 2 fees, (appearing in person with another 

 Knight at the Muster at Rhuddlan 10 Ed. I.) : nevertheless 

 both in the Pipe Rolls of 10 and 14 Ed. II. he is debited with 

 63 scutage for that particular campaign : his service being 

 31-^ fees, as he inherited the estates of Wm. Forsard who 

 rendered that number (Pipe Roll 14 Hen. II., Ebor,\ Most 

 of those capital tenants specially summoned for the 5 Ed. I. 

 Welsh war, from Yorkshire [unlike the total for England, 

 where about half of all specially warned neither come, send, 

 nor fine Marshal's Roll izjjjfine, or "make," or " have," 

 but there are no writs of quittance noted on the Pipe Rolls 

 of 5, 6, or 7 Ed. I. re this army; that King however seems 

 not to have effectively pressed the collection of escuage (see 

 Parl. Writs /. Ed. II.), and as shown in the Luterell case, 

 such was being collected in 10 Ed. III. Edward II. collected 

 or attempted to collect the escuages of Ed. I. most of the 

 Yorkshire entries (Pipe Rolls 7 and 13 Ed. I.) give no further 

 information than the number of fees each tenant had (the 

 Welsh war of 10 Ed. I. is the last of which any regular 

 entry of escuage is made for this county), and could be but of 

 slight use as a guide to what was due to the Crown. 



