[597] “Homines de Tichesoura debent v marcas quia noluerunt jurare assisam regis.” Pipe Roll a. 1166, quoted in Stubbs, _Constit. Hist._, vol. i. p. 470, note 1. [598] “The expenses of gaols at Canterbury, Rochester, Huntingdon, Cambridge, Sarum, Malmesbury, Aylesbury and Oxford are accounted for in the Roll of 1166.” _Ib._ p. 471, note 5. [599] Stubbs, _Gesta Hen._, vol. ii., pref. pp. lxiv, lxv and note 1. [600] Stubbs, _Constit. Hist._, vol. i. p. 471 and note 6. [601] _Ib._ p. 472. Madox, _Hist. Exch._, vol. i. p. 572. [602] The tenour of the king’s writ is shewn by a typical answer, printed by Bishop Stubbs in his _Select Charters_, p. 146, from Hearne’s _Liber Niger Scaccarii_ (2d ed.), vol. i. pp. 148, 149. [603] _Liber Niger Scaccarii_, edited by Hearne. A roll of the Norman tenants-in-chivalry was compiled in the same manner in 1172; see Stapleton, _Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ_, vol. i., _Observations_, p. xxxiv. [604] Madox, _Hist. Exch._, vol. i. p. 576, and Stubbs, _Constit. Hist._, p. 471, note 7, from Pipe Roll a. 1166. [605] Stubbs, as above, p. 472, and _Gesta Hen._, vol. ii. pref. p. lxv and note 2. Eyton, _Itin. Hen. II._, p. 117. [606] Stubbs, _Gesta Hen._, vol. ii., pref. p. lxv, note 2. It was too soon as yet for the beneficial results of these measures to become evident to the people at large; but it was not too soon for them to excite the resentment of the barons. The stringency with which in the assize of Clarendon every claim of personal exemption or special jurisdiction was made to give way before the all-embracing authority of the king’s supreme justice shewed plainly that Henry still clave to the policy which had led him to insist upon the restoration of alienated lands and the surrender of unlicensed castles in England, to lose no opportunity of exercising his ducal right to seize and garrison the castles of his vassals in Normandy[607]--in a word, to check and thwart in every possible way the developement of the feudal principle. The assessment of the aid for his daughter’s marriage seems indeed at first glance to have been based on a principle wholly favourable to the barons, for it apparently left the determination of each landowner’s liabilities wholly in his own hands. But the commissioners who spent nearly two years in collecting the aid had ample power and ample opportunity to check any irregularities which might have occurred in the returns; and the impost undoubtedly pressed very heavily upon the feudal tenants as a body. Its proceeds seem, however, not to have come up to Henry’s expectations, and the unsatisfactory reports which reached him from England of the general results of his legal measures led him to suspect some failure in duty on the part of those who were charged with their execution.