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and a minority (94) 2 fees and under (2 to J-), leaving 206 

 holders of upwards of 2, of which 121 and 40 hold 15, and 

 50 fees and upwards respectively ; it is not thought probable 

 that there were many (if any) single capital fees T. R. W. 

 as will appear in the sequel. These rough analyses (correct, 

 however, for practical purposes) of 12 Hen. II. to 38 Hen. III. 

 show a natural increase of tenants due in the main to partition 

 thro' heiresses ; after the Statute 18 Ed. I. (Quia Emptores) 

 further increase should occur, but (if I err not) there are no 

 existing records from which complete lists of contemporaneous 

 holders of the Crown can be furnished. , 



Aid of *b Fourteen of these entries have been already printed in 



Lanes. Lay Subs. (}. A. C. Vincent), but those in the Table 

 (save Wilts), are from Enrolled Exch. ajcs L. T. R. No. 3, the 

 reference seemingly given for the 14 (ut sup.) being now 

 changed (I am informed) to Subs. L. T. R. No. 2, which is 

 less complete than Enrolled, etc. (ut. sup.), but considerably 

 more so than the list in Lanes. Lay Subs. ; with regard to which 

 (p. 248 ibid.) Surrey is given 164 2s. id. (i.e. 82^ - fees), a 

 reading which neither of the above originals assign it (either 

 reads 139 8s. od.), but both refer to Worcester, which the 

 author of above vol. refrains to mention, nor were N. R.,and 

 E. R. of co. Yorks assessed as such (p. 248, ibid.) but portion 

 of the former was taken with the latter, and balance of the 

 former separately, as the details in the Exch. Enr. ajcs (ut sup.) 

 amply demonstrate. 



Total of *f Sum of all the great fees in England (save Staffs) 



Fees ghtS 5,83'f + J plus 2s. 7jd. more in total = 11,663 i?s. 7|d. at 



/. Ed. III., 2 per fee ; small fees of Moreton in Somerset, Dorset, and 



by con- Bucks, 60 J + -5-^ = ^80 8s. 8 Jd. at 2 marcs per fee ; small fees 



S e cdbe!" ary of Moreton in Devon, 61^ = ^76 73. ojd. at 253. per fee : 



total sum, ;ll,820 13-f. ^\d. The writer being unsatisfied 



with the incomplete returns in the liook of J[ids for this 



duxilium instructed Mr. N. J. Hone, to search for it in 



Enrolled ajcs of the Exch., where it was found in No. 3 ; 



the record certainly deserves publication 'verbatim et litteratim. 



It must be explained (the original MS. it is believed is a 



triumph of addition) that the writer for reasons of expediency 



has used slight license with Mr. Hone's figures (who must not 



therefore be accused of lack of accuracy) ; thus Hereford is 



returned as fourscore and four fees and the sixteenth part, 



and the half of the forty-eighth part of a fee, whereas 



84-^ fees appear in the table, and similar slender deviations 



(never J fee) occur in same. 



