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NOTES TO TABLES OF KNIGHTS' FEES. 



*a This was an aid to Knight Prince Edward, granted by Aids of 

 the Prelates and Magnates, scilicet de singulis scutis que de nobis ifHen.II., 

 tenentur in capite xl so lidos tarn de veteri feofamento quam de novo js Hen. III. 

 (Lane. Lay Bubs. J. A. C. Vincent citing 7. 37 Hen. III.), contrasted, 

 but with 2 or 3 exceptions new feoffment is quite omitted 

 in the returns, these for the more part being equivalent to the 

 render of 1168, that is, those fees alone for which the tenants 

 were wont to respond for escuage, so that this column may 

 be properly compared with the 1st one in the Table as regards 

 the total. It should be understood that both in 1168 and 

 1253-4 the counties have a somewhat nominal significance 

 for a baron owning lands in divers shires may be returned 

 under only one of them, and hence for any co. the result is 

 likely to be both excessive and deficient, and the making a 

 transcript from the Pipe Rolls of any particular shire does not 

 of necessity answer to a list of its capital tenants by knt. 

 service. There are several omissions in 1253-4., amounting 

 under n entries to some 775 fees ; viz., the co. of Cornwall 

 21 5 J ; portions of the fiefs of the Earldoms of Chester and 

 Richmond, 114 and lo6 T 7 F ; Hon. Wallingford, looj ; Hon. 

 Lancaster, 72 \ ; the Archbp. Canterb., 60 ; fief of St. Valery, 

 50 less II ; Hon. B'stead, 22^ ; and the fees late Wm.f. 

 Robert, Wm. Traci, and Rog. Buron, 29, 6, and 10. Fiefs 

 of less than 10 (12 Hen. II.) have not been traced, but it may 

 be assumed with probability that some new fees had been 

 granted since that date (e.g., Hon. Knaresbro') ; Cornwall is 

 not found, having been granted to Earl of same in I 5 Hen. III. 

 (Dugdale) for 5 fees, who also held the Hon. of Wallingford 

 (noted, but no payment nor return of fees): 12 counties 

 answer in pairs, and N'land and Rutland have been supplied 

 from the Roll of 40 Hen. III. (aid to knt.) counting en bloc 

 the composite entries under Honors (those under Boulogne, 

 and Peverels of Essex, and Notts are answered by tenants of 

 same, and taken as 3 entries) the tenants yield some 439 names, 

 which allowing for omissions may be taken as c. 450, as against 

 300 in A.D. 1168. Neglecting the omissions, and taking the 

 fees of 38 Hen. III. as 5959 in 439 entries, 9 tenants hold a 

 full J- of them (1572), and 29 over -J (3012), but the majority 

 of tenements consist of small fees (^ to 2), leaving 204 names 

 for upwards of 2 (fees), but 74 of them holding more than 

 20 fees. The returns of 12 Hen. II. on the same basis (render) 

 yield 6339 fees (5721 +618, as omissions here added) in 300 

 entries, of which II tenants hold J (1600), 34 a half (3204), 



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