Castle-guard
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Castle-guard was an arrangement under the feudal system, by which the duty of finding knights to guard royal castles was imposed on certain baronies, and divided among their knights fees. The greater barons provided for the guard of their castles by exacting a similar duty from their knights. In both cases the obligation was commuted very early for a fixed money payment, which, as castle-guard rent lasted in to modern times[1].
Notes
- ↑ AL Poole, Domesday Book to Magna Carta (OUP, 2nd edition, 1955)
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
