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CORNISH LANDHOLDERS circa 1200. 

 Br WILLIAM SINCOCK. 



In Carew's Survey we find two Scutage-rolls, extracted from 

 the Red Book of the Exchequer. These are not dated, but, 

 from internal evidence, it is apparent that one of them could 

 not have been earlier than 1196, as the date of 8th Rich. I. is 

 referred to; the other could not have been previous to 1204, as, 

 in that year, Eobert Fitz-Walter succeeded to the Cornish fees 

 of his maternal uncle, Geoffrey de Lucy. Lysons found it 

 " difficult to say which is the earlier of these." There is no 

 question, however, but that the first-named record is the earlier 

 of the two, the date of which may be fixed between 1196 and 

 1204, as Alan Blund (Bloyou) is stated to hold 7 fees, and he 

 died in 1204, as did also Geoffrey de Lucy, both being therein 

 named. 



The second roll, evidently the later record, contains the 

 name of Archemaund Plandrensis whose fees appear in the first 

 rolls as being held by Stephen Flandrensis, who died in 14th 

 John. "We may therefore safely place Roll A as between 1196- 

 1204; and Roll B. 1213-1220. 



The scutage, being a payment in lieu of personal service, 

 was first taken in the 5th Hen. II. In 1195, a scutage of 20/- 

 on the knight's fee was imposed for the war in Normandy, and 

 almost immediately after, in 1196, another scutage was levied, 

 and this is probably the one we are about to elucidate so far as 

 it relates to Cornwall. 



Although compiled within a few years of each other, these 

 rolls shew great changes, and give us the names of landholders 

 at the close of the 12th and beginning of the 13th centuries. 



Roll A, 1196-1204. 

 Names of Barons and Knights from the Rolls of Knight's 

 Fees, or Scutage-rolls, temp. King Richard I, in the Red Book 

 of the Exchequer. 



