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shire (service 50) ; and altho' the Redvers fee 

 answered (14 Hen. II. Pipe Roll) for but 89 fees, 

 it avowedly contained over 100 (20 Hen. II. Pipe 

 Roll); the above table shows somewhat the easy 

 assessment of such important tenants as make 

 indefinite returns. It may be suggested that in his 

 charter a tenant now and then states his new 

 feoffment within his statement as to s. d. ; but as Super do- 

 a whole the certificates demonstrate this term (s. d.) m 

 to be used for land in the lord's hands in 1166 : 

 Lamb, de Scoteni informs of a service of 10, and 

 has 5 fees of old, and 5 s. d., remarking that he 

 has \ new, enfeoffed " ex illo dominio," and renders 

 10, but is debited with f new, but probably his 

 charter should be read as service 10, old 5, new |-, 

 and s. d. 5 less Jk Again Rad. de Worcester states 

 his service to be i , and that he has enfeoffed |^ of 

 his few of new, the balance being s. d.; accordingly 

 he renders i, but is debited with ^\ new ; taking 

 a line from all the certificates together demonstrates 

 that usually the addition of old, new, and s. d. deter- 

 mines the service. The total entries are about 

 300, not including the tenants of the 618 fees 

 given under omissions, but the former number 

 contains a few double entries; of this total 261 statistics of 

 are lay, and 39 church fees. There are in all 125 Fees - 

 cases of fees less than 5, and 155 less than 10, 

 leaving 145 of 10 and upwards ; of known fees 

 from 10-75 are 51 cases, of which, I think, 

 some 10 cases with fractional dimensions, the 

 remaining 41 being by service 10, 15, 20, 25, 

 30, 35, 40, 50, 60 and 75 ; where the service is 

 unstated (for large fees) there is little uniformity, 

 probably pointing to a defective render, and 



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