medival terms

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Across
  1. 1. Tournament or combat of two mounted knights, tilting using lances.
  2. 5. Market held at regular intervals, usually once to twice a year
  3. 6. Title from the Roman Dux, which has been held over from Roman time by the ruler of a district called a duchy. In England the title is reserved for members of the royal family.
  4. 8. Free man who held land from a lord to whom he paid homage and swore fealty.
  5. 11. Remission from punishment for a sin after it has been forgiven
  6. 12. Badges and clothes provided by a lord for their followers
  7. 13. Tax levied on boroughs and on the tenants living on royal estates.
  8. 14. The financial office of the royal household; thus chamber finance, the system of managing royal finances from the chamber rather than the Exchequer.
  9. 15. Tax levied on trading booths or stalls at markets and fairs. Not paid by hawkers or peddlers.
Down
  1. 2. A method of trial in which the accused was given a physical test which could be met successfully only if they were innocent.
  2. 3. Food such as acorns that swine (pigs), etc., feed on in the woods
  3. 4. Days when rents and taxes were due
  4. 7. Official who was the chief administrative and judicial officer of a shire.
  5. 9. The retainer of a feudal lord who owed military service for his fief, usually the service of one fully equipped, mounted warrior.
  6. 10. the class of society immediately below a knight.
  7. 16. Chief financial officer of the realm, and senior officer of the Exchequer. One of the great officers of state