[Footnote 63: I have found a case bearing upon this point and reported at great length (Thorpe's _Registrum Roffense_, pp. 70 _et seq._). It arose from an attempt of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1253, to distrain the Bishop of Rochester for the 'auxilium ad filium regis primogenitum militem faciendum'. The bishop 'posuit se super recordum rotulorum de Scaccario, per quos rotulos poterit et illa quam rex contra episcopum et etiam illa quam archiepiscopus contra episcopum movit questio diffiniri. Didicerat enim episcopus per unum fidelem amicum quem in scaccario tunc habebat quod nunquam tempore alicujus regis pro aliquo feodo episcopatus aliquod fuit regi factum servicium vel datum scutagium.... Unde consulebat quod audaciter poneret se episcopus super recordum rotulorum de Scaccario, nichil enim tenet episcopus per baroniam de rege, sed per puram elemosinam, quod non est dicendum de aliquo episcopatu Anglie, nec de Archiepiscopatu, nisi dumtaxat de Karleolen. Cumque cum audacia institisset episcopus, quod decideretur per rotulos de Scaccario quibus creditur in omnibus illis sicut sancto evangelio', etc., etc. The barons of the exchequer examined the rolls, 'a tempore primi conquestus' (?) and reported: 'nusquam invenerunt episcopum Roffensem solvisse aut dedisse aliquod servicium regibus temporale'. But the dispute was not finally decided till 1259. The clue to the matter is found in the Canterbury 'Domesday Monachorum' (8th Report Hist. MSS. i. 316), where a list of the archbishop's knights, perhaps coeval with Domesday (_vide infra_, p. 236), is headed by 'Episcopus Roffensis' with a _servitium_ of ten knights to the Primate.] [Footnote 64: Cerne had to provide 'ten' knights _ad wardam_ at Corfe Castle, or 'two' _ad exercitum_ (_vide_ cartam).] [Footnote 65: This indeed is proved by an extract quoted by Madox (_Exchequer_) from the Roll of 22 Hen. II (rot. 10_a_).] [Footnote 66: The effect of all the changes of assessment we have traced under Henry II would only be the reduction of this total to 774.] [Footnote 67: Roll of 11 Hen. II. (This was, of course, the son of Henry I by Edith.)] [Footnote 68 The custos of his fief paid scutage for eighty knights in 1159, but he speaks 'de meis lx. militibus' in his _carta_.] [Footnote 69: The undoubted assessment in 1162. Afterwards it is found paying on sixty and a fraction.] [Footnote 70: 'Lx. milites ... habere solebat pater meus' (_Carta_).] [Footnote 71: This figure is given in the _Liber Niger_, but is really derived from his recorded payments.] [Footnote 72: Tot habuit milites feodatos ... scilicet lx. de antiquo feodo (_Carta_).] [Footnote 73: In Yorkshire alone. In all England, many more.] [Footnote 74: This figure is taken from the payments in 1161 and 1172.]