Any religious house administered by a prior or prioress. If the prior was subject to a resident abbot, the house is called an abbey or monastery. The title prioress is held in certain religious houses for women. A royal official, or a manor official appointed by the lord or elected by the peasants. The fee paid by the heir of a deceased person on securing possession of a fief.
Tradition determines the amount demanded.
The sum that the holder of a knight's fee may pay his lord in lieu of military service. Sometimes used as a form of tax. These dues, usually called corvee, are almost in the form of labor on the lord's land. Generally this averages to three days a week. A servant who accompanies his lord to battle, or a horseman of lower status used as light cavalry.