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Then the final crash came; this writ was like a call to arms—a call not to follow the King’s banner, but to fight against him.

ssss1. Commentaries, II. 59.

ssss1. See Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law, I. 218.

ssss1. See Statute 12 Charles II. c. 24.

ssss1. See Pollock and Maitland, I. 274, n.

ssss1. Pollock and Maitland, I. 218.

ssss1. Littleton, II. viii. s. 133.

ssss1. Littleton, II. viii. s. 153.

ssss1. Littleton, II. viii. s. 158.

ssss1. History of Exchequer, I. 650, citing Pipe Roll of 18 Henry III.

ssss1. See Littleton, II. ix. s. 159. With this may be compared the definition given in chapter 37 of Magna Carta, where John speaks of land thus held by a vassal as “quam tenet de nobis per servitium reddendi nobis cultellos, vel sagittas vel hujusmodi.”

ssss1. Mediaeval England, pp. 249-250. A similar tenure still exists in Scotland under the name of "blench"—a tenure wherein the reddendo is elusory, viz., the annual rendering of such small things as an arrow or a penny or a peppercorn, “if asked only” (si petatur tantum).