Knight's Fee
I came across the term Knight's Fee in multiple places during my research into the local history.
According to Wikipedia
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In feudal Anglo-Norman England and Ireland, a knight's fee was a unit measure of land deemed sufficient to
support a knight.
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The creation of a Knight, and also the alloment of land
and creation of titles such as Earls, is a little more complicated.
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The Statute made constitutional gestures to reduce feudalism and removed the monarch's right to demand
participation of
certain subjects in the Army. By abolishing feudal obligations of those holding those feudal tenures
other than by socage,
such as by a knight's fee, it standardized most feudal tenancies of the aristocracy and gentry.
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Inquisition post mortem - according to Wikipedia:
An Inquisition post mortem (abbreviated to Inq.p.m. or i.p.m., and formerly known as an escheat)
(Latin, meaning "(inquisition) after death") is an English medieval record of the death, estate and
heir of one of the
king's tenants-in-chief, made for royal fiscal purposes. The process of making such inquisition was effected
by the
royal escheators in each county where the deceased held land. The earliest inq.p.m. was made in 1236,
in the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272), and the practice ceased c.1640, at the start of the Civil War,
and was finally abolished by the Tenures Abolition Act 1660, which ended the feudal system.