Download or read book The King's Serjeants & Officers of State written by J. Horace Round and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971. The class of whom these pages treat were those who held their lands ' by serjeanty, ' that is, by the performance of some specified service, either at all times or in time of war. We may now turn to those serjeanties which can be traced back to the time of the Domesday Survey. Several of them will be dealt with, in detail, in this volume.