Scutage · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

A legal-fiscal device allowing military service to be commuted into a money payment to the Crown.

The new material will be found mainly (1) in the portions of the Introduction treating respectively of scutages, the Coronation Charter of Henry I.

preface to second edition ¶

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.

i william i to henry ii main problem the monarchy ¶

John had no intention, however, to forego his right to resume the practice of annual scutages:

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