20.] [**** Madox, Hist, of the Exch.p.83, 84, 100.
Gerv.Dorob.p.1410 What made the Anglo-Norman barons more readily submit to appeals from their court to the king's court of exchequer, was their being accustomed to like appeals in Normandy to the ducal court of exchequer.

See Gilbert's History of the Exchequer, p.

1, 2; though the author thinks it doubtful whether the Norman court was not rather copied from English.

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6.)] By this expedient the courts of barony were kept in awe: and if they still preserved some influence, it was only from the apprehensions which the vassals might entertain of disobliging their superior, by appealing from his jurisdiction.