Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army: From the Conquest to the Present Time, Том 1T. Egerton ... & G. Kearsley, 1801 - Всего страниц: 462 |
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Стр. 7 - ... when every tenant of a knight's fee was bound, if called upon, to attend the king in his army for forty days in every year. But this personal attendance growing troublesome in many respects, the tenants found means of compounding for it, by first sending others in their stead, and in process of time by making a pecuniary satisfaction to the Crown in lieu of it. This pecuniary satisfaction...
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