He could at his pleasure command the attendance of his barons and their vassals, in which consisted the military force of the kingdom; and could employ titem, during forty days, either in resisting a foreign enemy, or reducing his rebellious subjects.

And what was of great importance, the whole judicial power was ultimately in his bands, and was exercised by officers and ministers of his appointment.
The general plan of the Anglo-Norman government was, that the court of barony was appointed to decide such controversies as arose between the several vassals or subjects of the same barony: the hundred court and county court, which were still continued as during the Saxon times,[**] to judge between the subjects of different baronies;[***] and the curia regis, or king's court, to give sentence among the barons themselves.[****] [* Dugd.Orig.Jurid, p.

1.5 Spel.

Gloss, in verbo Parliamentum.] [** Ang.

Sacra, vol.i., p.