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as " Knights " occur also amongst the capital and 

 undertenants : there are certainly upwards of 700 

 (it is impracticable to distinguish duplicates) men, 

 to whom D. B., directly or indirectly applies this 

 term (and many more of course of the class, not 

 specified otherwise than by the baptismal or 

 gentilitial names), but some of these are in no 

 sense of the term "Knights," as obviously the 

 domince do not militate, nor presumably does 

 Wennenc, the priest [D. B., i., 1 8#, bis vel amflius\, 

 included (I think), amongst Earl Eu's milites. 



The term therefore in its collective usage may 

 include mere tenants by military service, who 

 cannot be "Knights"; the same application is often 

 to be remarked in the Baronial certificates (includ- 

 ing domince, monachi^ etc.), of 1166, which yield 

 some 4,000 names, |- of which hold less than i fee ; 

 some of these are entered more than once, and on 

 the other hand the returns are neither definite nor 

 complete : Simon de Beauchamp's charter names 85 

 tenants on 36! old fees, and if read (by the letter), 

 informs of an aid on the fee /. Hen. I. (i.e., scutage 

 Hen. i. j n naturej if not j n nam e), that all his tenants 



were milites t. Hen. I. or /. Hen. II. is improbable. 



The Assize of Arms* (1181) ut videtur mi hi, 



affects for the more part tenants by Knight Service; 



* It is presumed that few tenants other than military, and 

 townsmen, would /. Hen. II. be assessed at 10 marcates of 

 land or goods ; the exceptions perhaps would be tenants in 

 fee farm, retainers attached to important households, and 

 perhaps a few tenants by socage on the ecclesiastical estates, 

 allowing always for considerable intermixture of tenure. The 

 Assize /. John, names tenants of \ fee, [some of them perhaps 

 equestrian servientes~\ ; most of the Yorkshire subsidy men 



