385
to the It
that
the cf the for the . . „ shall b«
of the cf/unties for the tm.y j»LaH
be so or otherwise notable £<. of
of the counties, as shall be to be knights,1
The of the (the
of the to be so whether
actually knights or not) elected in the
courts* Many writers been to
knights at first solely by their
to as of
There lias to be an a ia
the as a to
the writs of
of the up the
only in the transaction,3 The
to the by the
In all the of elected no
tinction of the
who held of lords), activities
led to representation In a central
certainly regarded as for the
and judgment of the community;
were often associated in the
freemen below them, the
that when there were not the
was to be filled out with. men.3
1 A. and S.f document 125, The knight, the girt (with the
sword? was of course the one who the knightly
name. But Distraint of Knighthood pot en*
tial knights could be seat to Parliament. After a cot al-
ways potential.
a But it is a curious fact that the aad of the
writ of 1254, the writ that has loomed so large in the early history of Par-
liament* make it practically certain that on that the
represented the counties were not tenants~in-chief» but subtenants,
«For examples, see art. i, of Northampton; art. 9, of
Arms; the cominisstQfl of 1194. A. and S. or W. N., passim.