In the next reign, we may inferfrom the favor granted by the King to the knights who defended their lands per loricas (that is, by the hauberk) that their demesne lands shall be exempt from pecuniary taxationthat the process of definite military infeudation had largely advanced.

All counties, hundreds, wapentakes, and trethings, shall stand at the old rents, without any increase, except in our demesne manors.