In the succeeding reign the rent of a knight's fee was computed at four pounds a year.

There were sixty thousand knights fees in England.] [Footnote 17: NOTE Q, p.295.

Fitz-Stephen, p.18.This conduct appears violent and arbitrary; but was suitable to the strain of administration in those days.

His father Geoffrey, though represented as a mild prince, set him an example of much greater violence.

When Geoffrey was master of Normandy, the chapter of Sens presumed, without his consent, to proceed to the election of a bishop; upon which he ordered all of them with the bishop elect, to be castrated, and made all their testicles be brought him in a platter.