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Wardship
Wardship meaning
The state of being a ward of someone. | In English feudal law, the guardianship which the lord had of the land of his vassal while the latter was an infant or minor.
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Key reforms include the abolition of the wards of court system for adults under the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act of 1871, and the discharge of adults from wardship within three years.
Elizabeth demanded a further payment of £3,000 for overseeing the wardship and a further £4,000 for suing his livery.
In addition, the fines assessed against de Vere in the Court of Wards for his wardship, marriage and livery already totalled some £3,306.
The indenture also provided for payment of debts amounting to £9,096, £3,457 of which was still owed to the Queen as expenses for his wardship.
These taxes were in addition to the various claims which were made upon Jews for relief, wardship, marriage, fines, law-proceedings, debts, licenses, amercements etc. and which Jews paid to the English exchequer like English subjects.
Thomas inherited his father's estates in 1425 and was placed in the wardship of the King, initially as a minor, but later (for reasons unknown) remaining there until within four months of his death in 1469.