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Obligation did not always lie to a neighbouring fortress e.g. there were lands in Cambridgeshire which owed ... in 1211 a tenant of Leaton held his land by serving with his ballista for eight days ; nearly a century later the same land ...
Obligation did not always lie to a neighbouring fortress e.g. there were lands in Cambridgeshire which owed ... in 1211 a tenant of Leaton held his land by serving with his ballista for eight days ; nearly a century later the same land ...
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100 LIT All land belonged to the king who bestowed parcels of it in separated lots as fiefs to various feudatories on condition that they supplied soldiers when required . This was called military tenure and provided for a specified ...
100 LIT All land belonged to the king who bestowed parcels of it in separated lots as fiefs to various feudatories on condition that they supplied soldiers when required . This was called military tenure and provided for a specified ...
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Building a Royal Castle TENURE In spite of the legal niceties enshrined in the Feudal System and later law , the ultimate right was that of might - the might by which William the Bastard acquired the entire land of England in 1066 and a ...
Building a Royal Castle TENURE In spite of the legal niceties enshrined in the Feudal System and later law , the ultimate right was that of might - the might by which William the Bastard acquired the entire land of England in 1066 and a ...
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