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magnates, from a payment adequate to their prob- 

 Evidence able service, and the attempt to tax the church on 

 Roiil pe all her fees of old feoffment ; few lay barons of 

 14 Hen. ii. k nown service of i o fees and upwards had any 

 excess of old ; these cases are all in Essex, viz., 

 Essex Galf. Comes, Mountfichet Wm., and Walt. 

 /. Ro. (who all fall back on what their men tell 

 them, and whose charters were perhaps indebted to 

 the ingenuity of the same scribe), with the pos- 

 sible exception of Earl Ferrars ; but on the other 

 hand excess of old was quite common in church 

 fees, which (if I have observed rightly) are some- 

 what as under 



Total. 



Summary Service. Archbps. and Bps. 461 Monastic Houses 294* 756^ 

 of Church Total Fees. ,, ,, 743! ,, ,, 343^ 1,087^ 



Fees ' II66 ' Service. Excess. 



Old. New. S. D. Old. New. 



Bps. etc ..... 45i 34 6f 240! 413 



Mon. Houses . . 284^ 9^ 45^ 3$ 



736H 4 I5li 286H 44* 



Ecclesiastics as a rule " render " their services, and 

 are debited with excess old, but not excess new, 

 which latter just in a few cases is included in the 

 r. c., so that of some 263 cases of excess old 

 debited on the 14 Hen. II. Pipe Roll almost all 

 belong to the Church ; this is a less total than 

 286 (above) but the Archbp. of Canterbury's fee 

 (paid by a custos) is included in the render, and 

 the Abbot of Peterboro' is not charged (with his 

 excess), in addition slight deficiencies in the 

 charters render exact figures (when collating with 

 the 14 Hen. II. Pipe Roll) impracticable. Of the 



