[Footnote 151: 'Nec permisit ut ecclesiae saltem proceribus coaequarentur in hac contributione vel magis exactione tam indebita quam injusta.' John of Salisbury (Ep. cxlv). Swereford, though confused in his account of the tax, points out that levy was made 'non solum super praelatos, verum _tam super ipsos_, quam super milites suos' (_L.R._, p. 6).] [Footnote 152: Gneist, for instance, writes: 'The first general imposition took place in 5 Henry II for the campaign against Toulouse, with two marcs per fee from all crown vassals' (_C.H._, i. 212).] [Footnote 153: Entered as 'Dona militum comitatus', not to be confused with the 'dona comitatus', a special levy of the following year (6 Hen. II), raised, it will be found, from the western counties, from Stafford in the north to Devonshire in the south.] [Footnote 154: 'Rex ... nolens vexare agrarios milites ... sumptis lx. solidis Andegavensium in Normannia de feudo uniuscujusque loricae et de reliquis omnibus tam in Normannia quam in Anglia, sive etiam aliis terris suis, secundum hoc quod ei visum fuit, capitales barones suos cum paucis secum duxit, solidarios vero milites innumeros' (p. 202, ed. Howlett).] [Footnote 155: This was certainly the case with the fiefs of Simon de Beauchamp and the Earl Ferrers, two of the most considerable.] [Footnote 156: _Angevin Kings_, i. 462.] [Footnote 157: 'A second scutage was raised in the seventh year, probably for payment of debts incurred for the same war, the assessment being in this, as in the former case, two marcs to the knight's fee.' (Preface to _Gesta Henrici Regis_, p. xcv.)] [Footnote 158: If it was raised for this purpose, it must have been levied either (1) from _all_ tenants-in-chief, which it certainly was not; or (2) from the _same_ contributors as in 1159, which a comparison of the two rolls will at once show it was not; or (3) from a _new_ set of contributors, which was also not the case, for the prelates, the Ferrers fief, etc., are found contributing as before.] [Footnote 159: _Const. Hist._, i. 582.] [Footnote 160: Instead of a fief paying _en bloc_, it seems to have paid through the sheriffs of the counties in which it was situate.] [Footnote 161: "Episcopus de Heref' reddit compotum de lxxvi. libris et v. solidis de promiss[ione] c. Servientium de Wal'" (p. 84).] [Footnote 162: 'Abbas de Abendona reddit compotum de lxxvi. libris et v. solidis de promise sione servientium in Waliam' (rot. 11 Hen. II, p. 74).] [Footnote 163: 'Abbas de Sancto Albano reddit compotum de lxxvi. libris et v. solidis de Exercitu' (_ibid._, p. 19).]