Abstract
Historians have mistakenly stressed coercive aspects of feudal rights over marriages in medieval England and have made unsupportable distinctions between heirs and heiresses. But extensive administrative documents and manuscript plea rolls show the feudal right to have been a tax which affected equally both male and female wards. Supported by the canon law, wards married as they wished — subject to the payment of the feudal marriage tax. Many of them appear to have married first and paid later.
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