[Footnote 200: It must be clearly understood that these figures cannot be absolutely accurate. Some honours are omitted, it seems, in the returns from which we have to work, and for these allowance must be made.] [Footnote 201: '[1235] Sicut Stephanus Segrave ... asserebat et affirmabat vetus scutagium ad xxxii. millia scuta assumabatur et irrotulabatur; et ad tantundem plene et plane potuit novum scutagium de novis terris assumari' (_Ann. Monast._, i. 364).] [Footnote 202: 'Nine thousand for all England would be a large estimate at any time of the twelfth century' (_Early and Middle Ages_, i. 375).] [Footnote 203: The italics represent Anglo-Saxon characters.] [Footnote 204: _Lib. Rub._, pp. 188, 214, 237, 238, 292.] [Footnote 205: _Ibid._, pp. 211, 214.] [Footnote 206: _Ibid._, pp. 214, 292.] [Footnote 207: _Lib. Rub_., p. 292.] [Footnote 208: _Ibid._, pp. 200, 210.] [Footnote 209: _Ibid._, p. 210.] [Footnote 210: _Ibid._, pp. 390, 444.] [Footnote 211: _Ibid._, p. 429.] [Footnote 212: _Ibid._, pp. 431-2.] [Footnote 213: M. Paris, _Additamenta_, p. 436. This list, which seems scarcely known, is very valuable for its early date, being, I think, about contemporaneous with the _cartae_ of 1166.] [Footnote 214: _L.R._, pp. 229, 245, 356.] [Footnote 215: 'Et predictus Willelmus dedit predictas tres carucatas terre Osberto vicecomiti pro servicio unius militis.'] [Footnote 216: Together with castle-guard of thirty knights at Newcastle.] [Footnote 217: 'Post tempus domini Regis Willelmi Ruffi, qui eos feoffavit.'] [Footnote 218: _Testa_, p. 69.] [Footnote 219: 'Post Conquestum Angliae' (_Liber Rubeus_, p. 332).] [Footnote 220: _Const. Hist._, i. 263.] [Footnote 221: 'Et deinceps tres (milites) mihi habeat _sicut antecessores sui faciebant_ in septentrionali parte fluminis Tamesie' (1091-1100).--_Ramsey Cartulary_, i. 234.] [Footnote 222: Compare the Ely entry (_supra_ p. 213) for 'superplus'.] [Footnote 223: Could this have been Richard fitz Nigel himself?] [Footnote 224: _Ramsey Cartulary_, i. 255. Compare with this expression 'in rotulo scripti', the Conqueror's command (_infra_), that the number of knights 'in annalibus annotarentur'.] [Footnote 225: Select Pleas in Manorial Courts, p. 50.]