Note 4 — LECTURE V.

‒ “Though, by Magna Charta, the relief of an earl’s son, for a whole county, was settled but at one hundred pounds; of a baron’s heir, for a whole barony, at but one hundred marks; and no more than one hundred shillings was to be paid for the relief of a knight’s fee—all which were called the antiqua, or accustomed reliefs of the kingdom.”