54 Domesday and Feudal Statistics 



whilst some in a hand later than the original are 

 retained (e.g. nearly all the Yorks entries by the 

 Sheriff) as of those who had not sent Charters, 

 with further additions from the 14 Hen. II. Pipe 

 Roll of fees military, but not from later ones, 

 excepting the Abbot of Malmesbury (required to 

 complete the military church tenants) who appears 

 neither in the returns of 1166 nor 1168. By this 

 method some 700-800 fees are lost, thus the 

 Earl of Richmond 64, the balance between 140 

 (the least probable no.) and 76 named in the 

 L. R. 1166 returns, the Honour of Boulogne, say 

 113, Earl of Leicester say 121^, the Honour of 

 the Constable in Essex, say 57, part of the Earl of 

 Chester's fees, say 118, Bernard de St. Valery, say 

 50, Simon Crevequer 13^, with Peverel of Dover 

 8^, and Hon. Lancaster 72^.* The service due 

 (including escheats) in 1166-8 there can be little 

 doubt exceeded 6,000 fees, but by how much is 

 difficult to estimate, as the largest tenements are 

 those where most uncertainty prevails to state 

 the number as under 7,000 may be probable, but 

 Expiana- scarcely proveable. The ist col. of the table 

 s column gives the render of account in Pipe Roll 14 Hen II., 

 ^ ii w ^ a ^ owances f r omitted returns from later 

 Rolls (thus the whole of the Salop tenants sending 

 charters are wanting 14 Hen. II.) ; the 2nd the 

 services due where stated, and where not the 

 " render " which method is erroneous for large 

 tenements ; the 3^ the excess of old feoffment 

 over service, by equating latter with " render " 



* The fees of Earl Hunts, and the complement of the 

 Chester fief (both unknown to writer) are here omitted. 



