Indenture System

[LouisJoseph]

How the the English indenture system of the middle ages work? I don't see how it was much different from feudal levies

 

[Flying Pig]

How the the English indenture system of the middle ages work? I don't see how it was much different from feudal levies

As I understand it, a captain was paid a certain amount of money to provide a company of men for the King, and therefore the crown could keep a professional standing army without the bother of training and maintaining them itself. Feudal levies were different; that meant an obligation to serve in a local lord's company in exchange for the right to live on his land, and an obligation on said local lord to raise a company of irregular soldiers in exchange for the right to live on His Majesty's land.