Crown Tenants
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Tenants holding land directly of the Crown, distinguished throughout from tenants of mesne lords for purposes of feudal incidents and services.
Each Crown tenant (except favoured foundations like Battle Abbey) held his lands on condition of furnishing a certain number of fully armed and mounted soldiers in the event of war.
When a Crown tenant died, the King’s officers had the right to enter into immediate possession, and to exclude the heir, who could not touch his father’s lands without permission from the Crown:
The primary object of this chapter was to regulate the procedure to be followed in attaching the personal estates of Crown tenants who were also Crown debtors.