Note 144 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 3)

The next levy was 'the scutage of Toulouse' in 1159. This, 'the great scutage' of Miss Norgate,144 is, strange as it may seem, on the Pipe-Roll itself almost uniformly styled not a scutage, but a donum. The explanation given by Swereford is wholly inadequate, and is this: 'Intitulaturque illud scutagium De Dono ea quidem, ut credo, ratione quod non solum prelati qui tenentur ad servitia militaria sed etiam alii abbates, de Bello et de Salopesbiria et alii tunc temporis dederunt auxilium'.145