Recruitment And Training

Question 1

What was feudal duty?

Answer 1

40 days knight service owed by nobles and tenants

Question 2

What was the assize of arms?

Answer 2

Required all men with land to provide a certain number of fully equipped knights

Question 3

What was scuttage?

Answer 3

Paying the king money to avoid military service

Question 4

Why did the king allow scuttage?

Answer 4

Gave him money to buy mercenaries

Question 5

What was the Royal Household?

Answer 5

Permanent troops paid by the king as his personal guard

Question 6

What was the Statute of Westminster (1285)

Answer 6

All fit men between 16 and 60 had to be ready for 40 days military service

Question 7

What happened after 1337 to attract more people to join the infantry?

Answer 7

They began to get paid

Question 8

What was requisitioning?

Answer 8

Forcing people to give up goods in order to provide for the army

Question 9

What was pillaging?

Answer 9

Robbing enemy towns and villages

Question 10

What did Edward III order to happen every Sunday and holiday?

Answer 10

Archery practise