# [<span id="page3"></span>III. The Second Estate](#ch3)

The obligation ran <em>both ways</em>, and contemporaries said so plainly
whenever they were asked.<a href="#n4"><sup>4</sup></a>

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What the rolls do not say is how often the obligation was tested.

## [Notes]{.section-title}

4. Bloch, *Feudal Society*, vol. 2, p. 17.