Commendati, Commendatio.
COmmendati were such as lived under the Protection of some Great Man, Lord or Patron, who undertook to secure their Estates and Persons, for which Protection and Security they paid him an Annual Stipend, or perfomed [ C] some Annual Service. Commendatio was the Safeguard or Protection it self, and was the same with Tutamen and Salva∣mentum, and many times it signified the Annual Rent, paid for such Security and Protection. See Du Fresne's Glossary in the Words: Besides the Commendati, there were Dimidii Commendati, according to the Latin of Domesday Book. In [ D] Cotetuna Tenuit Teit Commendatus Dimidius Edrico praeposito Regis, & Dimidius Commendatus Antecessori Malet, &c. Little Domesday Book, f. 322. b. This Teit in the time of King Edward had two Protectors, Edric the Kings Reeve, and the Prede∣cessor of Robert Malet, and paid half the Annual Rent for his Protection to one, and half to the other. And besides these there were Sub-Commendati, such as were Commendati under [ E] Commendati; that is, Servants under them, or such as had dependance on them, and were also under the Protection and Security of their Patrons, and Dimidii Sub-Commendati, such as in like manner were under the Dimidii Commendati, and had two Patrons or Protectors, and the same as they had. In parvo Thornham ii liberi, homines, unus eorum fuit Commen∣datus [ F] Ulvevae, & Alter Dimidius Sub-Commendatus Ante∣cessori Malet. Sudfolc. Little Domesday Book, f. 322. b.