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abbot (abbas)
account (compotum); dietary; household; specimen; travel
acre (acra)
address; formal; plural
administration, estate
adultery (adulterium)
affinity
agent (cliens)
agreement (conventio)
aid (auxilium)
ale (cervisia, servisia)
aliens, foreigners
allegiance (ligancia)
alms (elemosina)
amercement
annuities
Annunciation of the Virgin, feast of (25 March)
archbishop (archiepiscopus)
archdeacon (archidiaconus)
archdeaconry (archidiaconatus)
arms (arma)
army service (exercitus)
arrears (reragium)
assize, grand
attorney (attornatus)
bacon (baco)
badger
bailiff (ballivus, famulus)
banner (vexillum)
barbel (barbellus)
barn (horreus)
baron (baro)
barony. See honor barrel, cask (cadus)
basin (pelvis)
beadle (bedellus)
beam (trabs)
bed (thalamus)
bedlinen
beef (bos)
Bible
bird dogs
bishop (episcopus, pontifex)
blood-letting. See phlebotomy boar
board (tigna)
bond-trading
boon-works (precature)
brachet (brachius)
broadcloth. See cloth building materials
burel cloth
buttery
calendar, Roman
campaign (expeditio)
carpenter (carpentarius)
cauldron (cacabus)
celibacy
chamber (camera)
chaplain, junior cleric (capellanus)
charge, mounted (estor)
cheese, (caseus)
chivalry, knightliness (militia)
Christmas (natale)
clergy of England
clerical conduct
cloak (clochia)
cloth, broadcloth. See also burel, gray, russet, scarlet
clothing
clothyard, unit of cloth measurement
cob (mannus)
cod (mulvellus)
coinage, currency Fig.; clipping of
Common Bench, court of
common law
consistory court
constable (conestabularius)
conversion, marks to pounds
corruption, fraud
costrel (costrellus)
countess (comitissa)
county. See shire
court, royal (curia regis) (see also Common Bench, Exchequer, King’s Bench, shire); ecclesiastical. See also consistory
cow (vacca)
cowman (vaccarius)
craftsmen
credit
creditor
criminals (vispiliones, malefactores)
cumin
cup (ciphus)
currency. See coinage customary duty (servitium debitum)
dating of documents
deacon (diaconus)
dean, rural dean (decanus)
deanery (decanatus)
debt (debitum)
deer; fallow (damula); red (cervus); roe (capriola)
deference. See also precedence demesne (dominium)
deposit
destrier, warhorse (dextrarius)
dice. See also gamester
dictamen (the art of letter writing)
dictaminal instruction
dietaries
diocese (episcopatus, provincia)
disparagement (dispargacio)
distraint (districtio)
dogs
draper (pannarius)
drawers, underwear (bracce)
dye (granum)
earl (comes)
eel (conger)
elements, humors
ell, unit of cloth measurement
emetics, purgatives
enemy (inimicus)
entertainment
essoin, excuse
estate management
Exchequer, court of (scaccarium); private. See also Jews, exchequer of
excommunication (sententia)
eyre, general
fair (nundine)
falcon (falco)
falconer
farm, estate fees, fixed rent (firma)
farthing (quadrans) fasting (jejunium)
fatherhood
fee (feodum)
fence (sepes)
feudal incidents
feudalism
fire. See house fire
firewood (busca)
firewood (estover)
fish, fishing
fishpond (vivarium)
flask of wine (flosca)
fleece
foot of fine
foreigners. See aliens
forest (foresta); clearance (purpestura); eyre; law
forester (forestarius)
forms of address formula (phrase)
formularies. See also manuscripts
fox
freeholders (libere tenentes)
fulling; mill
funeral (exequie)
fur. See also vair, miniver
gamester, gambler, dice-player (aliator
geld, (geldum)
girdle (zona)
Glanvill, legal tract
God’s penny (token sum)
gold goose (auca)
goshawk (hostorius)
gout (gutta)
grain (bladum)
grange (grangia)
gray cloth
grayhound (leporarius)
gridiron (craticulus)
gyrfalcon
halfpenny (obolum)
hare
harvest (messis)
harvest-time
hauberk, mail coat
hawker
hawking
hay (fenum)
hayward
health regimen
herring (alleca)
hide, land assessment
holidays, per annum
homicide
honor (appreciation)
honor (baronial estate)
horse (equus). See also cob, destrier, palfrey, sumpter
horse trappings (cooperte)
hospitality
hostage, pledge (obses)
house (domus)
house fire
housebreaking
household, aristocratic or military (familia); size of
household department (officinum)
household officers
household servant (famulus)
humors. See elements
hundred (hundredum)
hunting
illegitimacy
impetration
incumbent of ecclesiastical benefice (persona)
inflation, monetary
innumeracy
jail (carcer); jail breaks
Jewry (judaismus)
Jews; expulsion of (1290)
Jews, Exchequer of
joust
judges delegate, papal
jurisdiction, bailiwick (balliva)
justices, justices in eyre
King’s Bench, court of
kinsman (cognatus)
kitchen (coquina)
knife (cultellus)
knight (miles, eques); daily wage of; fee of; fellow-knight (commilito)
knighthood (militia)
knightliness. See chivalry
laborer, workman (operarius)
Lady Day. See Annunciation lamb (agnus)
lambskin (agnelinus)
lanner falcon (lannarius)
largesse, generosity, liberality
law, canon; Roman. See also common law
lawsuit (causa, lis)
lawyers, canon
layperson (laicus)
legacy
legitimacy
Lent
letters (littere, petitorie). See also dictamen
letters of orders
letter-writing, art of. See dictamen
liberality. See
largesse liberties, baronial
light (lumen)
lineage, family, (lignage)
literacy
livery
livestock
lodging (hospitium)
lordship (dominium)
mackerel (macherellus)
manor house, court (curia)
manuscripts
—Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS W. 15
—Bodleian Library, Fairfax ms 27
—British Library, Additional ms 8167
—Corpus Christi College Cambridge, ms 297
—Gonville & Caius College Cambridge ms 205/111
mark (marca) unit of currency
marriage (maritagium)
marshal (marescallus)
marshalsea. See stable martin
mass (divina)
master (magister)
meat
messuage, house and site (mesuagium)
mews (muta)
Michaelmas, feast of St. Michael the Archangel (29 September)
mill, water (molendinum); wind (molendinum ventericium); pond (stagnum)
miniver, form of squirrel fur
monastic profession
money (denarii, nummus, moneta, pecunia). See also coinage
money-changing
money-lending, usury
mortal enmity
motherhood
mustard
mutton, sheep (multo)
naam (namea)
neighbor (vicinus)
neighborliness
nepotism, patronage
news (novas)
newsletters
nouvel disseisin
oak tree (quercus)
oats (avena)
oblations, church-offerings (oblationes)
obol. See halfpenny office (officium)
official, ecclesiastical judge-delegate (officialis)
orders, clerical (ordines)
otter hound (lutericius)
outlaws
ovens
ox (bos)
oysters (ostria)
palfrey (palefridus)
pantry
papal curia
papal legates
parage
parish (parochia)
park (parcum)
parliament of England
parson. See incumbent
patronage. See nepotism
pawnbroking
peasant (rusticus). See also villein
pedagogy
peel, shovel
peer (par)
penny (denarius) or sterling, Fig. 1; long and short cross
people, race (gens)
pepper (piper)
perch, fish (perticus)
peregrine (falco altanus)
perquisites
perse. See cloth
Petition of the Barons (1258)
phlebotomy, blood-letting (fleubotoma)
physicians
pig pasture (pasnagium)
pigman, swineherd (porcarius)
pike (lupus aquaticus, lucius)
pipe rolls, of the exchequer of England; of the bishop of Winchester
pledge for loan or fine (pignorancia, vadium)
plow (aratrum, carruca)
plowman (carucarius)
poaching
pork (porcus)
pot (olla)
pound (libra), unit of currency
power
precedence
priest (presbiter, sacerdos)
prince (princeps)
prior
prise (prisa)
proctor
protection (protectio)
provisioning
prowess (proece)
purveyors rabbit
racial rhetoric
rank. See status, precedence rape
rector
reeve (prepositus)
registers, episcopal
relics
relief, succession dues (relevium)
rents, assize (or fixed)
ring (anulus)
roach (rochia)
robber (latro)
robbery. See also housebreaking
robe, suit of clothes (roba)
roll (rotulus). See also pipe rolls
russet cloth
salmon (salmo)
sauce (salsaria)
saucery
scallop (pectis)
scarlet cloth (scarleta)
scutage, (scutagium)
seals
seld, bazaar (selda)
seneschal. See steward
serjeant, officer (serviens)
serjeants-at-law
serjeants of the peace
serjeanty
servant (garciferus)
servitude
sex, marital
sheep. See mutton sheet (linceamen)
shepherd (beccarius)
sheriff (vicecomes)
shilling (solidus)
shire (provincia, comitatus); court (comitatus)
shopping
sins, mortal
skinner (pelliparius)
soke (soca), as administrative area
sor hawk (sorus)
spaniel (hispinolius)
spence, dispensary (dispensa)
squire (armiger)
stable, marshalsea
sterling. See penny
steward, seneschal (senescallus, dapifer, discifer)
stock (staurum)
stock keeper
student (scolaris, alumpnus)
student life
succession
suit of court (secta)
summons (summonitio)
sumpter, pack-horse (sumerius)
surcoat (cota)
swineherd. See pigman
synods
tablecloth (gausape)
tail-pole of a windmill (pertica)
tallow candles (alba candela)
tavern (taberna)
taxation
tenant-in-chief
tiercel, male hawk (tercellus)
timber (meremium)
timber frames
tournament (tornamentum); fields and sites for
tracker dog (investigator)
trencher bread
trough (alveus)
tun, measure of wine (doleum)
usury. See money-lending
vagabonds
vair, squirrel fur (varia)
venison, offenses against game
verderer, forest official
vert, offenses against woodland
vicar
vill, township (villa)
villeins (rustici, villani)
vintner (vinetarius)
wages; per day. See also knights
wagon (veredus)
waistcoat (corsettus)
wapentake
wardship (custodia)
warfare (bellum, guerra)
wax (cera)
wey (stone), measure of wool
whitefish, whiting (albus piscis)
widow (vidua)
windmill. See mill
wine (vinum)
wine, racked
wine, white
wine-trade
wolf
wolfhound (canis lupinarius)
woodland (nemus, silva, boscus)
wool (lana)
writ (breve)
writing masters (dictatores)