In the stead the brand new bailiff produced half of-yearly check outs in order to direct the new lease or feudal features away from vassals, whose success had stopped to be one object both of great interest or solicitude on their lord. Whether they have been steeped otherwise bad, delighted or unhappy, happy or repining, is immaterial to him once he’d stopped to live in his castle, and also to getting covered by their armed vassals. (more…)