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ssss1. See (for year 1201) Ramsay, Angevin Empire, p. 390, and authorities there cited.

ssss1. Cf. Miss Norgate, John Lackland, p. 125.

ssss1. Commune of London, pp. 273-4.

ssss1. Two historians, however, who have recently given valuable and independent accounts of the reign of John, say little of its value. Sir James Ramsay (Angevin Empire, p. 432) treats it briefly, and Miss Norgate (John Lackland, p. 163) barely notices it.

ssss1. Miss Norgate (John Lackland, p. 123) describes the exactions supplementing the scutages: "These scutages were independent of the fines paid by the barons who did not accompany the King on his first return to Normandy in 1199, of the money taken from the host as a substitute for its service in 1201, of the equipment and payment of the ‘decimated’ knights in 1205, and the fines claimed from all the tenants-in-chivalry after the dismissal of the host in the same year, as well as of actual services which many of those who had paid the scutage rendered in the campaigns of 1202-4 and 1206."