Consequently the chapter limiting the power of the crown to raise scutages and aids without the consent of the council vanished, and with it the complementary one which determined the method of calling a council.
In the former reign, the taxes had been partly scutages, partly such a proportional part of the movables as was granted by parliament; in this, scutages were entirely dropped, and the assessment on movables was the chief method of taxation.
Henry, therefore, introduced the practice of making a commutation of their military service for money; and he levied scutages from his baronies and knights' fees, instead of requiring the personal attendance of his vassals.
Scutages shall be estimated at the same rate as in the time of Henry I.
Footnote 86: The scutages record him as paying always on 15 knights quos recognoscit--the formula for servitium debitum.
Glastonbury, which paid on sixty knights in the first two scutages of the reign, paid on forty in the third and in those which followed.
There is mention made, in the history of the exchequer, of these scutages in his second, fifth, and eighteenth year; and other writers give us an account of three more of them.
In the Great Charter, as has been stated, it was stipulated that in the assessment of scutages and of all save the three commonly recognized feudal aids the king should seek the advice of the General Council.
Parliament; such scutages being indeed the groundwork of all succeeding subsidies, and the land tax of later times.
In the reign of King Henry the barons commuted their personal services for money, and, as they at first relished the system, and the scutages were moderate, they paid without trouble.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scutages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
