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GCSE History · key term
A payment made instead of providing military service to the king.
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Paper 2
A payment that allowed a baron to provide money instead of military service to the king.
Revise: Constraints on KingshipThese campaigns also required soldiers and money. Instead of supplying military service, barons could make a payment called scutage. Between 1199 and 1214, John demanded scutage eleven times.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Money paid instead of providing military service, also called ‘shield money’.
Revise: The Experience of WarScutage, or ‘shield money’, allowed money to be paid instead of supplying military service. The Crown could use this income to hire soldiers, including mercenaries. Payment made it easier to obtain men for longer campaigns rather than relying entirely on reluctant landholders and a short period of compulsory service.
Money paid to the king instead of providing knights for military service.
A payment made to the king instead of performing feudal military service.
A payment to the king made instead of providing knights for military service.
Money paid to the king instead of providing the knights owed through military service. The payment depended on the number of knights due.
Paper 2
Revise: Magna Carta and the Rise of ParliamentOne source of resentment was scutage, a payment made instead of providing military service. Between 1199 and 1214, John demanded it eleven times. He also imposed large fines.
A payment made instead of providing military service owed through holding land.
Use precise evidence, such as the loss of Normandy in 1204 and the eleven demands for scutage between 1199 and 1214.
Scutage was a payment instead of providing knights; it was not the same as knight service.
Distinguish scutage from a fine: scutage replaced knight service, while fines and other charges could arise from forest offences, inheritance or wardship.
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