Notes about the aids and scutages levied on knight’s fees in Kent. These lists are the groundwork for the short accounts of thirteenth-century baronies to be found in Flight 2010, chapter 9.
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Copies of the barons’ certificates as they were entered in the Little Black Book of the Exchequer.
The payments made in respect of this aid recorded in the exchequer rolls for 1168–77.
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Accounts of the aid collected from knights and prelates in 1235–6.
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A rough reconstruction of the text in its original form, organized by lest and hundred.
The transitional version of the text, organized by lest and barony.
The final version of the text, organized by barony.
An annotated transcript of the account which appears in the exchequer roll for 1246.
An annotated transcript of the account which appears in the exchequer roll for 1254.
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A list of knight’s fees in Kent, organized by lest and hundred, datable to 1253–5.
A list of lests and hundreds, interwoven with the list of knight’s fees.
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Some entries extracted from a list of the knight’s fees in Kent drawn up in 1284–5.
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A rough reconstruction of the account for this aid, so far as it can be extracted from the account for the aid of 1346–7.
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Account submitted by the collectors appointed for Kent.
Investigations made by the exchequer.
Extracts from an annotated version of this account, supposed to be the work of Ciriac Petit (d. 1591).