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15 cards from this deck
Monarch → Earls → Sheriffs
Answered directly to king, not earls
Local militia organised by sheriffs for defence
Custodians of royal castles in their shires
1068-71
Overtaxed, kept surplus, seized lands, corrupt
Royal estates managed by sheriffs
Used authority to legitimise taking English lands
Seized land for protected royal hunting grounds
Blinding or other violent penalties
No hunting, collecting wood, or damaging vegetation
Legal term for royal hunting land, any terrain type
Fines from law-breakers & selling hunting rights
Post-1071, after Anglo-Saxon resistance period
Undermined William's claims to be just ruler
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