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