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1 168, and the certificates are of 1 166, there can be 

 no particular improbability in supposing that the 

 marriage of the Princess Matilda might be in con- 

 templation prior to the former date, and also that 

 the Crown might think it prudent to have some 

 definite information from their lay tenants, which 

 views are by some considered as antiquated. In 

 1109 Hen. I. took (Hen. de Huntingdon) 33. per 

 Hide to marry his daughter : if this is an exact 

 statement, a larger sum (presuming the demesne 

 Hides taxed), would be raised than from the tax 

 on the fee in 1168 ; and strengthens the belief 

 that the lay aids of Hen. I. differed considerably 

 from the escuages Hen. II. to Hen. III. After 1 166, Military 

 and during the reign of Hen. II. it would appear Service - 

 that usually the tenant in chief either went on 

 the expedition, compounded by substitutes or 

 money to furnish them, or paid escuage : it is 

 difficult to see how the heading (Pipe Roll 18 

 Hen. II.) De Scutagiis militum qui nee abierunt in 

 Hyberniam, nee milites^ nee denarios illuc miserunt* 

 followed by lists of capital tenants either owing or 

 liberating into the Treasury could refer to anything 

 else than scutage quitted at a fixed rate per fee. 

 The editor of the Red Book (Rolls Ser.) seems to 

 think otherwise and that the assessment (Vol. II., 



* Perhaps the best evidence of early fines might be sug- 

 gested from this heading, unless the "auxilium militum" of 

 3 1 Hen. I., or the promise of servientes (Pipe R. 1 1 Hen. II.), 

 or the dona t. Hen. II. are regarded in that light : an instance 

 of escuage being paid into the wardrobe at Worcester (one of 

 the places to which the " army of Wales " was summoned) 

 occurs on Cl. i. 572, 7 Hen. III. 



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