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Knight-service
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Knight service
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Herischild
Herischild, military service or knight's fee
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Tenure
and bartered for any equivalent, or granted free from all circumstances, or in consideration of any certain services. Knight service proper, or tenure in chivalry, was the original and most honourable species of tenure created by a determinate … in infancy and escheat. Grand serjeanty was another species of tenure which some writes think was superior to knight-service, whereby the tenant was bound, instead of serving the king generally in the wars, to do him some
Magna Carta
full age:-'If any of our earls or barons, or any other, which holdeth of us in chief by knight's service, die, and at the time of his death his heir be of full age, and oweth to
Scutage
Scutage, a tax or contribution raised by those that held lands by knight's service in commutation of such service towards furnishing the king's army, at the rate of one, two, or
Escuage
Escuage [fr. escu, Fr., a shield], a money payment, assessed on the tenants by knight's service from time to time, first at the discretion of the Crown, and afterwards by authority of Parliament;
Knight's fee
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Knights fee
The fee of a knight specif the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service being sometimes a hide1b or less sometimes six or more hides
Knighthood
Knighthood, the character or dignity of a knight. The union of chivalry with the feudal system, and the decay
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