Pipe Rolls
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The royal financial records (Pipe Rolls) repeatedly cited as primary evidence for feudal incidents and scutage payments.
Exorbitant sums (not properly “scutages” at all) might thus be extorted from stay–at–homes ne transfretent or pro remanendo ab exercitu—phrases which appear in the Pipe Rolls of Richard.
This right seems, at some uncertain date, to have been extended from females to males, and instances of sums thus paid occur in the Pipe Rolls.
Stubbs, and their adherents held that one of Henry’s most important reforms was the invention of scutage;