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balance between 4fof fees (total of 3- col. being 

 excess of old) and 263 (Pipe Roll), Wm. de 

 Romara is charged with 9^ fees relaxed, which 

 with the excess of render over service by certain 

 lay tenants accounts for about 80 fees ; of the re- 

 mainder most of 84 fees were probably due tho' 

 not rendered (service unknown), and with the 

 cases of Canterbury and Peterboro' account for the 

 total. Thus Nigel de Luvetot (Hunts) probably 

 owes the 1 2f fees he names in his Charter, tho' he 

 escapes by paying on 10, hence he must be sup- 

 posed to have excess of old (service unstated), so 

 that I presume about 84 of the 4 5 of excess of old 

 were due to the Crown taking the Church fees 

 to have been correctly assessed by their renders. 

 Perhaps amongst the curiosities of the Exchequer Unre- 

 might be found a case of a Bishop or Abbot paying nabiiitfes, 

 on a fee he did not recognise, but saving by a and 



. . . . D . '. . r o J extensive 



custos it has not been the writer s good fortune to demesnes 

 discover an example thereof thus in Pipe Roll "' 

 i Ric. I. (1189) the Archbp. of York and Bp. of 

 Durham still owe their contributions (of unrecog- 

 nised fees) for the aid to marry the daughter of 

 Hen. II. (i 1 6 8). Pearson's table of Valets (Hist. 

 Eng., pp. 665-9) for 2 1 Southern Counties estimates 

 the home ecclesiastics as being lords of about T ^ of 

 the land in 1086 ; and of the total fees of 116.6 

 the Church possess ^ to ^, so that the presumption 

 lies, that tho' in proportion to their service the 

 religious had far more Knights than the lay 

 barons, their " dominicum " was still in greater 

 comparative excess. 



In the 40,000 acres of the Liberty of Ripon, 



of eccle- 

 siastics. 



