CHIVALRY, the knightly class of feudal times. (See KNIGHTHOOD AND CHIVALRY.) The primary sense in the middle ages is "knights" or "fully armed and mounted fighting men." Thence the term came to mean that gallantry and honour ex pected of knights. Lastly, the word came to be used in its general sense of "courtesy." In English law chivalry meant the tenure of land by knights' service. The Court of Chivalry was a court in stituted by Edward III., of which the lord high constable and earl marshal of England were joint judges, having summary crimi nal jurisdiction as regards all offences of knights, and generally as to military matters. When the earl marshal alone presided it was a court of honour deciding as to precedence, coats of arms, etc. This court sat for the last time in 1737. The heraldic side of its duties is now vested in the earl marshal as head of the Heralds' College.