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Ramsey who pays 60 and 100 marcs respectively 

 in 1235 and 1242* equal to 30 and 33 J fees. 

 The King's mandate to the Sheriff of Norfolk 

 and Suffolk (p. 282 T. de N.) dated 6 May 

 20 Hen. III. mentions the charters of the mag- 

 nates, and that the Sheriff shall certify of those 

 holding i fee and less ; and presumably a like 

 method might be used in other counties. 



The Gascony Scutage has been dealt with in the 

 Preface to Vol. II. (L. R. Rolls Series), notwith- 

 standing the editor's failure to recognise the York- 

 shire returns in the Testa de Nevill ; (see his note 

 p. 733, Vol. II., ibid., citing T. de N., pp. 625 

 and 638), and it may suffice to add that inquisi- 

 tions of this date (circa 1242) occur in almost 

 every county named in the T. de N., and to 

 point out that the monastic houses had not com- 

 muted their service in the same way as the bishops. 

 Northumberland is well given in the T. de N., as 

 there are inquisitions circa 1210-12 (12-13 Jhn) 

 on pp. 392-3, collections for the aid to marry 

 (pp. 394-5), and the later Gascony inquests com- 

 mencing on p. 381 ; the following fines from 

 Dugdale's Baronage (citing Pipe and Fine Rolls), 

 may be noticed in this connection ; calling to mind 

 that those who " had their service " abroad had 

 scutage (for themselves) of their men, and that 

 said escuage was 3 marcs per fee, but that most of 

 those who fined conceded their scutage also. 



* 1235 and 1242 are dates used with latitude for the aid 

 to marry and the Gascony scutage ; in neither case were the 

 debts all paid in those years. 



