Marion's Rights as Baroness

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All definitions are from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST), which contains information about Scots words in use from the twelfth to the end of the seventeenth centuries (Older Scots).  DOST is available on-line in searchable form at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html.

Muirs

Mure, Muir, Mor(e), Moir, n. Also: mur, mwr(e, mwure, muer, murr-; muire, muyr(e), mwir(e), mwyr; moyr, moer; mour, mowr, mowir, mowyr; moor(e). [ME. mor(e), e.m.E. moor(e), OE. mór.]  1. Barren open country, moorland, heath. b. Rough, uncultivated, heathery land considered as part of an estate. 2. A tract or expanse of heath or moorland. b. plur., = sense 1 above. 3. A tract of open uncultivated ground appropriated to a proprietor or a community; a common; a park.

Multures:

Dry multure, n. ‘A yearly sum of money, or quantity of corn paid to a mill, whether those liable in the payment grind their grain at the mill or not’ (Bell).

Heriots:

Herieth, n.  [ME. heriet. See etym. note to Hereʒelde.]  Heriot .

Hereʒeld(e, Heri-, Herʒeld (e, n. Also: hereʒeild, heir(e)-, heyreʒeld, heri-, heryʒeld; herreʒelde, heryheld, -ʒeld, -ield, -iell; harʒeld, -ʒeill, hairʒeld; hyreild.  [Possibly f. Here n.1 (lord) and ʒelde n. (payment), but app. related in some way to ME. heriet (c 1290), later  heriot , which has exactly the same sense, although regarded as representing OE. hereʒeatwa, war-gear, with a shift in usage between the 11th and 13th centuries. Earlier Latinized examples are herietum (c 1120),  heriot um (c 1147), and the AN. heriet occurs in Britton. For a Sc. instance see Herieth.  If hereʒelde is a re-fashioning of heriet, the substitution of -ʒelde for -ʒet may have been suggested by the variation of ld and t in such words as herald, herat.  In its history and meaning the OE. hereʒeld is so remote from the Sc. use that the similarity in form can only be accidental.]  1. The best living animal or ‘best aucht’ (see Best a. 1. b), which by feudal custom the landlord claimed on the death of a husbandman tenant.  Sometimes commuted for a money payment.  2. The right of taking hereyeld payments from one’s tenants.   3. Hereʒeld hors, naig, etc.: An animal taken or claimed as hereyeld. 

Escheats and Merchets of Women

Eschete, Escheit,  Escheat , n. Also: escheite, es(s)cheitt, eschiet, -eet, esheit; escaete, eschaet(e), eschait; echeat, esheat; eschet(t), echet, eshet; asschet, aschaet(e), -eitt, -eat.  [e.m.E. and ME.  escheat e, eschete (ME. also echete, eshete, eschet), AF. and OF. eschete, eschaete, f. OF. escheoir, to fall to one’s share.]    1. Property, possessions, or goods taken from a person by forfeiture or confiscation, esp. falling to the king in this way.   2. ‘Any forfeiture or confiscation whereby a man’s estate, heritable or movable, or any part thereof falls from him’ (Bell).

Merchet , n. Also: -ett, -ete, -eit, -eat, -iett, -i(e)te, -iatte, mershet(e), marchet, -eit, market.  [North. ME. (? or AF.)  merchet  (12th c.) (see Acts I. Pref. 34/1), med. L. (Sc. and Eng.) marcheta, marketa,  merchet -, marchetum, of obscure origin.  Derived f. Welsh merch, plur. merched, -et, woman, young woman, daughter: early and medieval Welsh law had a corresponding due known as gobr merch or amobr or (in the Latin versions) merces filiarum ‘the fee paid to a lord by the person subject to that payment on the marriage of a female’.]   A feudal casualty payable to the lord on the occasion of the marriage of the daughter of a tenant or vassal.   For many additional examples, see Bludewite and Hereʒeld.   Commonly specified as one of the rights or privileges accompanying a grant of land.

Homages

Homage , n. Also: homag, -ege, -adge; omage, ymage.  [ME.  homage  (c 1290), omage (c 1300), umage (c 1400), OF.  homage , ommage, humage.]  Homage ; formal acknowledgement of allegiance by a vassal to his lord. Freq. in to make, or take, homage.

Warren

Warren , n.  [ME and e.m.E. warein (1377), warenne (1429),  warren  (1485), OF warenne, MDu. warande.] An area of land reserved for the breeding of game or rabbits.

Amercements

Amerciat, Amerciate, p.p. Also: amerchiat.  [med. L. amerciatus, p.p. of amerciare.] Subjected to, punished by, a fine; fined.

Americat(e), v. To amerce, fine.

Sok

Sok , n.1 Also: soc, sock(e).  [ME and e.m.E.  sok  (1228),  sok e (c1290), soc (c1460), OE sōcn, ON sókn, med. L. soca.]   1. A right of local jurisdiction.  2. ? The service due on land held by  sok age.

Sak

Sak, n.1 Also: sac(k).  [ME and e.m.E. sake (Trevisa), sacke (c1460), OE saca acc. and gen. pl. of sacu dispute, litigation, crime (cf. Sak(e n.), ON sqk.] Chiefly coupled with  Sok  n.1 in lists of rights in the tenendas clause of charters, originally denoting certain rights of jurisdiction but latterly appar. merely formal. 

Toll

Tol(l), n. Also:  toll e, tole, toil(l), toyl, towll, tell(e), tholl, thol(e), thoill.  [ME and e.m.E. tol (Layamon),  toll  (Cursor M.),  toll e (1393), towlle (1587), tole (1604), tholl (1607), OE  toll , MLG, MDu. tol, ON  toll r, L. telōnium.]    1. A tax or duty paid to a landowner, etc., chiefly on land held in tenancy, on exported or imported goods, for the privilege of selling goods at a market, for right of passage, etc. Also fig.

Theame

Tem(e), n. Also: team, teem, them(e),  theame , thame.  [ME and e.m.E. team (c1200), tem (a1250), teme (14th c.), teem (Manning), theam (Trevisa), teame (1523), OE téam.] a. Offspring. Only as Barneteme n. q.v. for examples. b. The right of a lord to jurisdiction in a suit concerning the recovery of goods alleged to be stolen in which a third party would vouch for the plaintiff’s claim to the goods. Chiefly, in collocation with toll. See Tol(l n. 2 for examples. c. Given as an alternative to or listed with toll (Tol(l) n. 1) appar. referring to a duty of some kind. d. In later use construed as the power of a lord to have servants, their families and goods as his property

Infangthief

Infang, n. Abbreviation of infangthief, chiefly used in indictments (in contrast to outfang) to denote theft committed within a manor or other estate.

Infang thift, n. Theft committed within a manor.

Outfangthief

Outfang , n.  [Abbreviated f.  Outfang theif(f or  Outfang -thift.] Coupled with Infang, q.v. for several further examples, in indictments for theft: ? = Theft committed outside the jurisdiction. (But perh. merely as a term of style.)  

Outfang theif(f), n. Also: -thief(e) and plur. -thewis.  [Early ME. utefangthef (1228), outefangethef (1228), e.m.E. outfanthef (1535),  outfang thiefe (1579), later var. of  Outfang and-thef(e).] A franchise, which is variously explained, granted to the lord of a private jurisdiction. 

Hamesucken

Hamesuk(k)in, n. Also: hame-, haymesokyn; hamesukkyn, -ing, -suckin(e, -en; hamsukkin, -suckin, -su(c)ken; haym(e)sukin, haimsuken, -suckin; hem(m)sucken; (homesukine).  [ME. hom-, hamsok(e)ne, OE. hám-sócn, ON. heim-sókn.] The crime of assaulting a person in his own house or dwelling-place. Freq. in various legal tags, as be way of hamesukkin, etc.  The circumstances in which an assault can, or cannot, be classed as hamesucken  are fully stated in Bell’s Dictionary of the Law of Scotland s.v.   b. ellipt. The right of trying cases of hamesucken .

Forethought Felon

For(e)thocht, Foirthocht, a. Also: fore-, forthoucht, forthowcht,  forethought , foirthogh(t).  [P.p. of ME. *forthinke (p.t. forthoght), OE. foreþencean. Cf. med. Fris. fortocht (1455) in the same sense.] Premeditated, planned. (Rare except with felony.)

1570 Sat. P. xx. 84.  Hurters and wounders of persouns upon auld feede and  forethought  fellonie; 1629 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III. 258.  The crime … being of a higher nature, importing  forethought  fellony;

Tenandries

Tenandry , -i(e), Tennendry(e), -ie, n. Also: tenandré, -rye, tenawndry, tennandry, -i(e, tenantry, tenanrye, (tenandie), ten(n)endré, teneindri, tenend(u)ry, tenentri, -raye, tennentrie.  [ME and e.m.E. tenantry (c1450), tenauntrie (c1460), tenentrie (1606).]  1. Land or other property, etc. let for rent; those parts of an estate let out to tenants (Tenand(e) (n.)) rather than retained in the owner’s or superior’s own hands; land held of a superior ? chiefly or only for rent, also fre  tenandry  (see Tenand(e) n. d).

Tenand(e), Ten(n)ent, n. Also: tennand(e, ten(n)ant, -end, tanand    [ME and e.m.E. tenant (Manning), tenand(e (c1375), tenaunt (Piers Plowman), tenent (1607), OF tenant.]   A lessee; one who enjoys the use of land, property, etc. in return for rent.

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Thank you for the definitions.