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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
- Sender: FredGate@ocitor.fidonet
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- Subject: Re: 4 On Fealty
- Message-ID: <725862425.F00005@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:01:45
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- Tibor wrote:
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- MS> Tadhg wrote:
- MS> Technically, in period a "fee" was a source of income, typically land.
- MS> Also qualifying in later times were fees and perquisites from an office,
- MS> the "livery and maintenance" given to knights standing castle-guard, and
- MS> the money fief or "fief-rente" (what we would call a pension or annuity).
- MS> I don't think lump-sum payments qualify....
-
- MS> So, what's the problem? Why can't any and all of these take place? More
- MS> to the point, in my experience, they do take place.
-
- Didn't say they couldn't - I was responding to Arval's "It's my fealty
- and I can swear it if I want to" message. Unless he's getting (or
- giving) pensions or equivalent (and occasionaly trinkets do *not*
- qualify), then it ain't fealty.
-
- Tadhg, Obelisk
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- * Origin: Herald's Point * Steppes/Ansteorra * 214-699-0057 (1:124/4229)
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