GLOSSARY. 



Ac7'e-Shot=TsiK imposed on the lands of the Great Level. 



^(^s= A carpenter's tool used by the Tudor farmer to even flooring and 

 hollow-out pig troughs. 



Affeere7'S=dier. afFeratores, aiBdati : persons appointed upon oath by the 

 Court Leet to set fines on such as committed faults arbitrarily 

 punishable. 



Affri or Avers— Ca,Yt horses. 



Agistvient=l?a.stuYa.ge of other men's livestock on the popular, royal, 

 or seignorial wastes. 



Agnation=SystQYa of marking the descent by the male line. 



Agrimensor^JjeLiiid. Surveyor. 



Akermanland=Th.e ploughman's perquisite in land. 



-Amercement = Pecuniary punishment of an offender against king or lord. 



Arcuum munitio^The furnishing of bows for warlike purposes. 



Assise of novel disseisin— A remediy, m.3iX.ivae festinam, for the recovery 

 of lands, etc., of which the party was disseised, called novel disseisin 

 because the Justices in Eyre went their circuits from seven years to 

 seven years, and no assise was allowed before that which commenced 

 before the last circuit, and which was called an ancient assise, in 

 contradistinction to an assise of novel disseisin, viz., one com- 

 menced since the last circuit.— Jacob's Diet., sub voc. "Assise of 

 Novel Disseisin." 



Averagium = 1lie villein's service for the lord's carting. 



Averland=ThG teamer's perquisite in land. 



B. 



Barley Cradle=K three-forked wooden instrument on which the corn 



was caught as it fell from the scythe. 

 Baron and JPeme= Husband and wife. 

 Bauern Gememde^Peasants' community. 

 Benejiciuni= An estate in land granted for life. 

 Bocland ^'Public land, rendered private by charter. 

 Brach = A bitch of the hovmd species. 



Breve testatum^The earliest form of a deed of conveyance. 

 JBrowse= Branches and sprigs of trees used as cattle food. 



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