We desire especially to express our gratitude to Mr. A.L. Smith, of Balliol College, Oxford, to whose encouragement it was largely due that this book was undertaken, and to Professor Unwin, who has not only read through the whole of it in proof, but by his advice and inspiration has laid us under an obligation that we cannot easily acknowledge. [Footnote 1: Messrs. Longman Green & Co.] A.E.B. P.A.B. R.H.T. CONTENTS PART I: 1000-1485 SECTION I THE EARLY ENGLISH MANOR AND BOROUGH 1. Rights and Duties of All Persons (_Rectitudines singularum personarum_), _c._ 1000 5 2. The form of the Domesday Inquest, 1086 9 3. The borough of Dover, 1086 10 4. The borough of Norwich, 1086 11 5. The borough of Wallingford, 1086 13 6. The customs of Berkshire, 1086 15 7. Land of the Church of Worcester, 1086 15 8. The manor of Rockland, 1086 16 9. The manor of Halesowen, 1086 16 10. The manor of Havering, 1086 17 SECTION II THE FEUDAL STRUCTURE 1. Frankalmoin, _temp._ Henry II 22 2. Knight Service, 1308 23 3. Grand Serjeanty, 1319 24 4. Petty Serjeanty, 1329 25 5. An action on the feudal incidents due from lands held by petty serjeanty, 1239-40 25 6. Free socage, 1342 26 7. Commutation of a serjeanty for knight service, 1254 27 8. Commutation of service for rent, 1269 27 9. Subinfeudation, 1278 28 10. Licence for the widow of a tenant in chief to marry, 1316 29 11. Marriage of a widow without licence, 1338 30 12. Alienation of land by a tenant in chief without licence, 1273 30 13. Wardship and marriage, 1179-80 30 14. Grant of an heir's marriage, 1320 31 15. Wardship, 1337 31 16. Collection of a carucage, 1198 32 17. An acquittance of the collectors of scutage of a sum of £10 levied by them and repaid, 1319 33 18. Payment of fines in lieu of knight service, 1303 34 19. The assessment of a tallage, 1314 35