ioi Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



(under correction) of time has yet been advanced 

 as to the earlier period in England ; Prof. Mait- 

 Jand remarking this has given the useful reference 

 to a certain term (Rot. Cl. 14 John, p. 117^), 

 but at the same time it is to be allowed that 



Term of 40 days is not infrequently named in connexion 

 with small serjeanties and the iurati ad arma, and 

 clearly for Knight Service in Normandy /. Hen. I., 

 (Bp. Bayeux' fees). Nevertheless it seems almost 

 demonstrable that in 1211 (12 John) certain 

 feudal tenants served far beyond that period ; the 

 royal army being at Pembroke, 16 June ; Water- 

 ford, 20 June ; Dublin, 24 August ; and Fish- 

 guard (Wales) 2 days later: in this expedition 



Presta- the ist general prest to feudal tenants was made 

 at Pembroke, 16 June, and the last notable ones 

 at Dublin, 21 August, to some 332 milites, and 

 to c. 1 1 6 more next day : altho' many of these 

 advances (to miHtes) are indefinite, some, up to 

 the close of the period, are stated to be on their 

 demesne (or that of their lord), in the case of 

 Flemish Knights, on their fees. It may be re- 

 marked that Earl David (Hunts) had an advance 

 (prest) as late as Aug. 24, and that in 14 Hen. III. 

 (Bain's Scotch Cal. citing L. T. R. Mem.} his 

 successor Earl John accounts for and is pardoned 

 80 of the prest of Ireland /. John the former 



Army of Karl had 10 milites in the Irish army, likewise the 

 Earls of Hereford and Essex (the Justiciar), but 

 this is the highest number there recorded :* in 



* It should be scarcely necessary to observe these Earls 

 had more than 10 fees each prests occur in the Pipe Roll 

 3 1 Hen. I. as being accounted for at the Exch., and it is 



