Nor shall we have wardship of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage, unless the fee-farm owes knight's service. |
Arthur was a posthumous child of Geoffrey, fourth of Henry II's five sons, and his wardship was a point of contention between Richard and Philip. |
However, he died a few months later, and the wardship of his three-year-old son, Roger, and his estate, escheated to the king. |
They did include both regular income from the royal lands and judicial profits, as well as more occasional income derived from feudal levies, wardships, and ecclesiastical vacancies. |
He was to have all wardships and marriages, and the Dublin government was to have no power of imposing any cess or tax. |
William attempted to enforce the traditional rights of the Crown to approve marriages and wardships, but with little success. |