You have to be in the fief to transfer it, don't you? Maybe the owner was busy somewhere else.
In future, admins should have an eye on this sort of thing tho. It gives quite an unfair advantage if you suddenly have double the gear. Even tho you guys only had the scottish stuff in New Ulburban, I suddenly have enough gear to equip 2500 men, after a 600 vs 200 battle. And the raid before didn't do anything I noticed.