Feudal Statistics 104 



(#), i fee or more; (^), 16 marcates of land or Assize of 

 goods say l fee; (c), 10 marcates of land or /.///. //. 

 goods say ^ fee ; (^/), all burgesses and tota com- 

 muna liberorum hominum allowing (d] to include 

 those holding other than by Knight Service, and in 

 exceptional cases (b) and (c), and supposing the above 

 classes to furnish the cavalry and heavy armed in- 

 fantry /. Hen. II., and that the viilani were not 

 to be permitted to have the furniture of freemen. 



The author of The Art of War lays much stress 

 on the absence of bows and arrows, which is little Alleged 

 to the purpose, as the assize /. John (vide Rot. Cl. Archery. 

 14 Hen. III., p. i, m. 6 d ) is quite definite on that 

 point in addition, these weapons are named in the 

 Laws of Hen. I., and it is incredible to hold 

 that the community of chroniclers of divers ages 

 had entered into a pact for a systematic deception . 

 of the moderns on that head, and vide also Pipe 

 Rolls t. Hen. II. as to archers and arrows. 



Ordericus Vitalis mentions feudum militis as 

 quite early in the iith cent., thus, PrafateS 

 Decanus ex discipulis Fulberli Carnotensis Epis- 

 copi fuit, et ex paterna hereditate feudum militis 

 possedit with reference to Dean Fulc, whom he 

 terms silicernius t. Mainerius (1066-1089), and 

 further (as to military ecclesiastics) continues, 

 Deinde Presbyteri de stirpe Dacorum litteris tenuiter 

 edocti parrochias tenebant^ et arma ferentes laicalem 

 feudum militari famulatu defendebant whether 

 or not the Dean of Evreux was classed as a miles 



[25 Ed. I., No. 16, Yorks Rec. Ser.], are rated at less than zos. 

 of goods, but it is allowed that mediaeval assessments arc of 

 a forma/ nature. 



