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Fees paid for the hiring of knights' services in each county of medieval England between 1210 and 1212 (in Pounds sterling)

County	Fees in Pounds sterling
Yorkshire	490.33
Norfolk & Suffolk	475
Devon	438.25
Dorset & Somerset	423
Essex & Hertfordshire	414.63
Lincolnshire	312.25
Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire	249
Worcestershire	248.5
Sussex	224.75
Kent	224.75
Leicestershire	221.25
Cornwall	220.25
Herefordshire	203
Wiltshire	176.25
Buckinghamshire	170.5
Warwickshire	156.5
Northamptonshire	122.25
Bedfordshire	113.5
Shropshire	97.25
Lancashire	91
Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire	86.5
Northumberland	68
Middlesex	36.5
Berkshire	36.2
Surrey	24
Rutland	7.5
Cumberland	3.5

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1971

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United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

1210 to 1212

Supplementary notes

All original figures were given as fractions, and have been converted and rounded to two decimal places.

No data available for Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire or Westmoreland.
* 5,334.4 GBP in 1210 = 10,403,387.45 GBP in 2018 5,334.4 GBP in 1211 = 9,270,356.28 GBP in 2018 5,334.4 GBP in 1212 = 10,573,479.80 GBP in 2018

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In the years 1210 to 1212, a total of 5,334.40 pounds was spent on the hiring of knights' services, by English royalty and nobility. The counties with the highest amount of money spent on knights' fees were Yorkshire (which is also the largest county in England), Norfolk and Suffolk combined, and Devon. Taking into account the change in purchasing power of one British pounds to convert these figures into modern values, the above figure was equal to roughly 10 million pounds* in 2018.