[Footnote 247: 'De his terris quas, ut diximus, suo tempore acquisivit, quibusdam bonis hominibus pro magna necessitate et honore ecclesiae dedit, et inde Deo et sibi fideliter quamdiu vixit serviebant' (_Chronicon Evesh._, p. 96). His successor, Walter (1077-86), incited by his own young relatives, 'noluit homagium a pluribus bonis hominibus quos praedecessor suus habuerat suscipere eo quod terras omnium, si posset, decrevit auferre' (_ibid._, p. 98). In the result, 'dicitur quod fere omnes milites hujus abbatiae haereditavit' (_ibid._, p. 91).] [Footnote 248: He begged Anselm that 'terras ecclesiae quas ipse rex, defuncto Lanfranco, suis dederat pro statuto servicio, illis ipsis haereditario jure tenendas, causa sui amoris, condonaret' (_Eadmer_).] [Footnote 249: Foundation charter of Alcester Priory.] [Footnote 250: Three other documents are found on the same folio. Of these the first is addressed to Lanfranc, Odo of Bayeux, Bishop Wulfstan, and Urse d'Abetot, and witnessed by Bishop Geoffrey (of Coutances) and (like our writ) by Eudo Dapifer, being also witnessed, like it, at Winchester. It is noteworthy that it grants Æthelwig the Hundred of Fishborough 'in potestate et _justitia_ sua'.] [Footnote 251: Cott. MS. Vesp. B. xxvi. f. 15[18].] [Footnote 252: 'Rex commisit ei curam istarum partium terrae ... ita ut omnium hujus patriae consilia atque judicia fere in eo penderent' (_Hist. Evesham_).] [Footnote 253: Florence of Worcester.] [Footnote 254: 'Cernens itaque rex grande sibi periculum imminere, debitum servitium ... exigit' (_Liber Eliensis_, p. 276).] [Footnote 255: 'Rex Henricus contra fratrem suum Robertum, Normanniae comitem, super se in Anglia cum exercitu venientem, totius regni sui expeditionem dirigit' (_Cart. Abingdon_, ii. 121).] [Footnote 256: In the former case, between the crown and its tenant; in the latter, between the tenant and his under-tenant.] [Footnote 257: 'Idem [Godcelinus de Riveria] dicebat se non debere facere servitium, nisi duorum militum, pro feudo quem tenebat de ecclesia, et abbas et sui dicebant eum debere servitium trium militum' (_Cart. Abingdon_, ii. 129). 'Cum a quodam duos milites ad servicium regis exigerem (tantum enim inde deberi ab olim a commilitonibus didiceram) ipse toto conatu obstitit, unius dumtaxat se militis servicio obnoxium obtestans.'--Henry, Abbot of Glastonbury (_Domerham_, p. 318).] [Footnote 258: Thus undermining Mr Freeman's argument: 'We hear of nothing in Domesday which can be called knight-service or military tenure in the later sense; the old obligations would remain; the primeval duty of military service, due, not to a lord as lord, but to the state and to the king as its head, went on,' etc. (_Norm. Conq._, v. 371).] [Footnote 259: _Norm. Conq._, v. 865.]