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Reference: | Publications of the Pipe Roll Society, |
Source: | New Series Vol XLII |
Title: | The Great Roll of the Pipe for the 3rd year of the Reign of King Henry III |
Place name: | Ewyias Lacy |
Date: | 1219 |
Description:
Michaelmas 1219
Extract p 167.
DE SCUTAGIO PICTAVIE
……….
Rogerus de Clifford [blank] vij m de eodem de feodis Roberti de Ewias.
Observations:
This is an extract from a taxation return covering the whole country. Scutage was 'a tax, instead of personal service which a vassal or tenant owed to his lord, sometimes levied by the crown in feudal times' according to Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary.
Thus
FROM THE SCUTAGE ASSESSMENT [literally From the painted Scutage]
Roger of Clifford 7marks [£4 13 4d] of the same [legal money] for the service of Robert of Ewias :
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