Volume 1
History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton.
- Edward Baines
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![il. 16 The Historp of the “ Villa, vill, with the antient Saxons, seems to be taken Romano sensu pro predio unius alicujus in rure cum idoneis edibus ad reponend. ejusdem fructus honestato, (in the Roman acceptation of the word, for some one’s farm, with proper buildings to lay up the produce,) but now pro multarum mansionum connexione quod in oppidis expetendum, (for the connection of many mansions or buildings, which is to be sought for in towns. ) “«< Services and Tributs incident to Fees—Tenere per Servitium (to hold by service) is, when any man Servitium Do suo Superiori, (owes service to his superior lord.) Serjantia, Serjeanty. Fy Militaris, Knights. “ This service is either Socmannel, Service of Soccomani. Elemosynarie, Klemosynary. “ Serjantia, amongst the feodal services, is the chief and most illustrious, which owns no other patron but the king, and is either Grand or Petit Serjanty. “1. Grand Serjanty is servitiwm militare (knight’s service), whereby any one predia tenet de rege in capite, (holds of the king in chief,) on that condition, that some honorable service be performed by the person of the man either by himself or some other in his behalf, and is cald servitium militare, not because it is always performed in the wars, but after maner of military service, it drawes heredis custodia, maritagium et relevium, (wardship of the heir, maritage, and relief), and of this sort are, “ 1. To lead the king’s army. “2. To carry signum vevillum, hastam in ejus acie, (to carry the king’s standard, banner, and spear in his army.) “3. To undergo the office of the king’s marschal, constabl, or cusrpaott “4, Vexillum regis infra 4 maria sequi, to attend the king’s standard into [upon] 4 maria (seas). “Al degrees of peers, sc. Dukes, Marqs, Earls, Vicont, Barons, hoc tenentur servitio, (are held by this service,) nor are the lesser dutyes and offices which are performed to the king in the grand solemnity of the coronation, as “1. To bare the king’s sword, or other ensigns. “ 2. To execut the office of senescal, camerarii (chamberlain), pincerne (butler), and other illustrious munera. Ther are many Serjantys that respect private persons, and not the king himself, as those who ought to ride with the Lord from manor to manor, and thes are cald Rad-knights or Radmans.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33521682_0001_0110.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
