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the barons answered the tax (in the two latter cases 



on the scutage assessment, i.e., the 14 Hen. II. 



render) ; and with those of 19 Hen. III., 31 Ed. I. 



and 20 Ed. III., where usually the King's collectors 



gathered the aid from all the fees they could find : 



the 6 Hen. VI. Inquest cited above, applies but to Retums'of 



those who had more than J fee, and the returns 6 Hen VL 



are extremely slender for W. R. Yorks (see Book 



of Knights' Fees, and the Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 



of that date), so that the land was presumably held 



for the more part by tenants under the limit ; 



regarding the later aids of Hen. VII. and Jac. I. NO returns 



I have not found that any estimate by fees was Fe*J"/? hts 



attempted . Hen.jn. , 



T r . T ... r T i / i i an d 7 ac ' 1- 



In the Inquisitions or 12-13 John (as abstracted 

 in the Red Book) I find but one note of new feoff- 

 ment in the case of Gilbert Peche, whose fee might 

 then be in the hands of the Crown ; his father's 

 certificate (1166) is practically repeated, the new 

 being \ + \-\-\ in both cases, but occasional 

 references to new fees occur in the records /. John 

 in the T. de N., presumably of those which had Further 

 been enfeoffed in that reign. In 19 Hen. III. the 

 aid to marry was paid to collectors, to the Sheriff, 

 and also directly into the wardrobe, or Exchequer 

 (see T. de N.) ; to all or many of the magnates 

 the King had written, instructing them to return 

 to the Exchequer a list of their fees as well old as 



6 fees, and the Abb. of Glastonbury for 3 (fees), which is the 

 precise no. of Knts. for which they answered in the Marshals' 

 Rolls of 29 Hen. III., 5 and 10 Ed. I., and 4 Ed. It., though 

 their service (including fees held by others) in 1166 was 

 40 fees each. 



