Note 254 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 3)

We find allusions to two occasions on which the feudal host was summoned, as above, by the Conqueror, and by his sons and successors. William Rufus exacted the full servitium debitum to repress the revolt at the commencement of his reign.254 Henry I called out the host to meet the invasion of his brother Robert.255 In both these instances reference is made to the questions of 'service due' that would naturally arise,256 and that would keep the quotas of knight service well to the front. That these quotas, however, as I said (supra, p. 205), were matter of memory rather than of record, is shown by a pair of early disputes.257