Note 518 — Chapter IV · KING JOHN 1206–1210

A summary of the scutages was drawn up, from the Pipe Rolls, by Alexander Swereford, in the time of Henry III., and is printed in the Rolls edition of the Red Book of the Exchequer. The marginal dates added in that edition are wrong throughout John’s reign. The true dates are as follows:— First scutage of John, “in rotulo primo” (1198–1199), 2 marks. Second scutage, “in rotulo tertio” (1200–1201), 2 marks. Third scutage, “in rotulo quarto” (1201–1202), 2 marks. Fourth scutage, “in rotulo quinto” (1202–1203), 2 marks. Fifth scutage, “in rotulo sexto” (1203–1204), 2 marks. Sixth scutage, “in rotulo septimo” (1204–1205), 2 marks. Seventh scutage, “in rotulo octavo” (1205–1206), 20 s. Eighth scutage, “in rotulo duodecimo” (1209–1210), 2 marks. Ninth scutage (for Wales), “in rotulo decimo tertio” (1210–1211), 2 marks. Tenth scutage (for Scotland), “in rotulo decimo tertio” (1210–1211), 20 s. Eleventh scutage, “in rotulo decimo sexto” (1213–1214), 3 marks. Red Book of the Exchequer, vol. i. pp. 11, 12.