Scutage
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A legal-fiscal device allowing military service to be commuted into a money payment to the Crown.
and partly by the development of the principle of scutage, a means whereby unwilling military service, limited as it was by annoying restrictions as to time and place, might be exchanged at the option of the Crown for money, with which a more flexible army of mercenaries might be hired.
The new material will be found mainly (1) in the portions of the Introduction treating respectively of scutages, the Coronation Charter of Henry I.
Without consent or warning, he had imposed a scutage at the unprecedented rate of three marks on the knight’s fee.