- Lord Percival
- I, Percival, Lord and viscount of Northumbria, acknowledge to my Lord Gilbert abbot of St. Mary of Scarborough that I hold as a fief in Northumbria the following castles and manors…For all of these fiefs, I swear that I will always be a faithful vassal to thee and I will defend thee, my lord, against all invaders. Moreover, I acknowledge that, as recognition of the above fiefs, I and my successors ought to come to the monastery of St. Stephen as often as a new abbot shall have been made. And when the abbot shall mount his horse, I and my heirs ought to hold up his stirrup. The first thime the new abbot enters Northumbria, I will supply him with the best fish and meat and with eggs and cheese and pay for the expense of shoeing his horse. And if I or my sons or their successors do not observe to thee or thy successors each and all the things declared above, we wish that all the aforesaid fiefs should be handed over to thee and thy successors.
In this feudal contract, who is the vassal - Percival or Gilbert?