Excerpt from A New Abridgment of the Law, Vol. 6 of 7 Thefe corporal fervices, as money multiplied and trade in creafed, were changed into money by the confent of the tenants, and the defire of the lords; and, as the military tenure began to decline, they admitted of compolitions from the feudal tenant for not attending his lord in the field, and thofe compofitions were afcertained by parliament after the war was over, which was called g/cuage This change of the fervices feerns to have been for the cafe and advantage of the lords, becaufe they were no longer obliged to carry their own provifions to the camp, when they had money from their tenants, which in every place would fufficiently provide them with all the neceflfaries of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.