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wit, that it was from all the ecclesiastical fees, as 

 well those of which response is made to scutage, 

 as of others retained to the tenants' own use, the 

 grant not to be drawn into a precedent. 



In 27 Hen. III. the Jay tenants who did not Aid to 

 join the Gascony expedition fined and conceded 

 scutage (voluntarily) of both old and new, but the 

 Bishops conceded 403. per fee on their service, and I2 42. 

 in return were allowed for themselves, to take 

 408. from all their fees (Mich. Comm., 27 Hen. III., 

 as cited by Madox) ; the inquisitions and col- 

 lections (from the prelates) may be found in the 

 Testa de N. ;* where the 19 and 26 Hen. III. 

 items are the chief contents as regards feudal 

 service alone; the inquests of John's reign 

 being frequently as to the rights of the Crown 

 and subtractions of service (with tenure by knight 

 service, serjeanty, and socage often occurring 

 together), and no systematic returns about old and 

 new feoffment. The difference between the aid 



* It is to be hoped, in case of a new issue of the Testa de Testa de 

 Nevill, Minerva will temporarily endow its editor with so Nevill. 

 much of discretion as to enable him to distinguish, say, 

 between an undated inquisition of the reign of John and 

 Hen. III. ; see the note p. 733, vol. ii., Red Book Rolls 

 Series, placing the extent of Nigel de Moubrai's fee (prob- 

 ably 15-25 Hen. III. during the heir's minority) as later 

 than the inquisitions of the Gascony Scutage (pp. 363 and 

 366, T. de N.) of circa 26 Hen. III. Either these inquests in 

 Yorks are fragmentary or incomplete returns ; the Moubrai 

 fee proves this, for the inquisition (p. 733 as above) is 

 considerably fuller than that in the Testa for this county. 

 With reference to the date of the Testa returns (pp. 363 and 

 366). both the form of the record and the names of the 

 tenants should have been sufficiently significant. 



