2. To extract from the Villein[5] Saccage and Soccage, tollage and tallage, pillage and ullage, and, in extreme cases, all other banorial amenities such as umbrage and porrage. (These may be collectively defined as the banorial rites of carnage and wreckage.) 3. To hasten the King’s death, deposition, insanity, etc., and make quite sure that there were always at least three false claimants to the throne. 4. To resent the Attitude of the Church. (The Barons were secretly jealous of the Church, which they accused of encroaching on their rites--see p. 22, Age of Piety.) 5. To keep up the Middle Ages. [Illustration: To extract from _The Villein_] NOTE In order to clear up the general confusion of the period it is customary to give at this point a genealogical table of the Kings (and even some Queens) of England. As these tables are themselves somewhat confusing, the one which follows has been to a certain extent _rationalized_, and will, the Editors hope, prove to be exceptionally memorable. Julius Cæsar = Cymbaline | +--------------------------+----------------+ | | Balbus = Boadicea Alfred (Arthur) = Lady | | Windermere | | (The Lady | | of the | | Lake) +------+ +----------+ | | Edward the Confessor = The Lady | of Shalott John of Gaunt = (1) Lady Godiva | | (2) Margaret of | | Angoulême | | (3) Joan of Arc | | (4) The Infanta | | (5) The Maria | | Theresa | | (6) Ann of | | Geierstein | | (7) etc. | | (8) etc. etc. | | +-------------+--+-------+ +---------------+---------+ | | | | | | William I Broody Mary Edward I Henry I o.s.p.* James I Richard | | | | | I