Assertion: knight's number | /r/HasProperty | supposed
Facets:
value: formerly
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: These returns further prove that lands had already been granted for the service of a fraction of a knight, such service being in practice already commuted for a proportionate money payment; and they show that the total number of knights with which land held by military service was charged was not, as was formerly supposed, sixty thousand, but, probably, somewhere between five and six thousand.