Note 94 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 3)

The cases in which the servitium can be shown not to have been a multiple of five are comparatively few. That of Simon de Beauchamp of Bedford was 54, of William Fossard 33½, of Humphrey de Bohun 30½, of William Malet 20⅙, of Robert de Beauchamp (of Somerset) 17, of William fitz John (of Harptree) 13¾, of William Blund 12, of Hugh Wac 10⅛, of William de Ros, William fitz John (of Weston) and William de Beauchamp (of Worcestershire) 7, of John de Bidun and Jocelin de Lovaine 5½.94 But these, it will be seen, are quite insufficient to overthrow the accumulated array of evidence on the other side, and some of them are, doubtless, capable of explanation. The Bohun fief, for instance, in 1162 paid on exactly 30 fees.