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Mr. Holborn objects Disusage for many years, of this kind of Charge for defence.
Sol. Disusage doth not take away the King's Right; as appears by 11 H. 4. And these of Galleys in specie, agree with making of Ships; Gallies were necessary in those times, in these times Ships.
Mr. St. John set down the Means the King had, and Billeted the way how to employ the same
for the Defence of the Kingdom; as in Tenures and Escuage, His Customes, Tunnage and Pound∣age: I say no more, I would to God all that would serve.
And for that of Escuage, 7 E. 3. it is forinsecum servitium, to be done in a Forein Realm. The forty days they account to begin, when the King did set foot on Scotland or Wales, or any Country of the Enemies. There are two kinds of Escuage, as appears by the Black Book in the Exchequer, and by Gervasius Tilburiensis, lib. 1. 26. And the one of those kinds of Escuage is laid upon every Free∣hold within the Kingdom, and a Mark levied up∣on the Land: That is not your Escuage by Te∣nures, which Mr. St. John speaks of, but another kind of Escuage.
Again, Lords, Barons, and Earls, they had some held of them by Escuage; if the immediate Lords did not go, they went not neither: Now here is the proper Escuage you would have for the Defence of the Kingdom.