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the reigns of Ed. I. and II. it is certain that 

 40 days is the accredited term, and appears to 40 days, 

 have been in 50 Hen. III. (Pat. Rot.] when 

 5 northern Barons are acquitted of further service 

 on that ground. 



The Inquisitions of Normandy (i 177-1 189) ijjjg dy 

 perhaps show a service to the King of c. 652 fees tion s. 

 from a total of c. f,&jo fees [the record gives 581 

 from c. 1500,] some of the royal service being in 

 castleguard in either case about a third of the 

 total, the balance presumably serving in nummis^ 

 and guarding the baronial castles, which in a 

 certain sense are those of the King and Duke 

 [Hen. II.] : the earlier return of the Bishop of 

 Bayeux is similar, 40 knights doing service 

 40 days (to Hen. I.), for 120 fees.* 



The massed capital (c. 1400) and undertenants 

 (7,871, Ellis), in D. B. yield 9,271 in toto ; of 

 these most of the immediate and many of the 

 mediate ones can in no sense be regarded as hold- 

 ing by Knight Service: the number of milites Miiites in 

 (Ellis) is 137, but this is a most delusive return ; Domesda y- 



clear that some had been made to English milites for the army 

 of Normandy, 2 John (Rot. Cane. 3 John). 



* The whole service due to the Duke is here stated as 

 774 milites [Feudal England, p. 292, citing date as 1171, and 

 Liber Rubeus, vol. Ji., p. 64.7, under date c. 1133, noting that 

 the total (774) is not in the original], but this seems to have 

 been an error of the transcriber, produced perhaps by adding 

 the service (c. 652) of/. Hen. II. (including the Bayeux fees) 

 to the latter total (120) t. Hen. I. : it may be noted that the 

 Bishop had 120 fees at cither date ad servitium suum, and is 

 returned as owing 40 milites to the Duke /. Hen. I., and 

 20 /. Hen. II. 



