The full barony consists of thirteen knights' fees and one third part, each knight's fee being of the value of L20 sterling, which makes in all 400 marks.

The head of a barony (_Caput baroniae_) is a castle disposed by inheritance, as England herself, that is to say, descending to daughters if there be no sons, and in that case going to the eldest daughter, _caeteris filiabus aliunde satisfactis_.[1] "Barons have the degree of lord: in Saxon, _laford_; _dominus_ in high Latin; _Lordus_ in low Latin.

The eldest and younger sons of viscounts and barons are the first esquires in the kingdom.

The eldest sons of peers take precedence of knights of the garter.

The younger sons do not.