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A28468	Nomo-lexikon, a law-dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute, ancient or modern lawes : with references to the several statutes, records, registers, law-books, charters, ancient deeds, and manuscripts, wherein the words are used : and etymologies, where they properly occur / by Thomas Blount of the Inner Temple, Esq.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1670 (1670)	Wing B3340; ESTC R19028	517,540	312

15. this County Palatine of Hexham was stript of its Priviledge and reduced to be a part of the County of Northumberland The cheif Governors of these Counties Palatines by special Charter from the King did heretofore send out all Writs in their own names and did all things touching Justice as absolutely as the Prince himself in other Counties onely acknowledging him their Superior and Soveraign But by the Statute 27 Hen. 8. cap. 24. This power is much abridged to which I refer the Reader as also to Cromp. Jurisd fol. 137. and 4 Instit fol. 204 221. Besides these Counties of both sorts there are likewise unto some Cities some Territory or Lands or Jurisdiction annexed as the County of Middlesex by King Henry the First to the City of London The County of the City of York Anno 32 Hen. 8. cap. 13. Chester Anno 43 Eliz. cap. 15. Canterbury Lamb. Eiren. lib. 1. cap. 9. Norwich Worcester Coventry Exeter c. The County of the Town of Kingston upon Hull 32 Hen. 8. cap. 13. Newcastle upon Tine c. The County of the Town of Haverford West 35 Hen. 8. cap. 16. County is in another signification used for the County Court which the Sheriff keeps every Moneth either by himself or his Deputy Anno 2 Edw. 6. cap. 25. Cromp. Jur. fol. 221. Bracton lib. 3. cap. 7. and lib. 3. tract 2. cap. 12. The word Comitatus is also used for a Jurisdiction or Territory among the Feudists County Court Curia Comitatus Is by Lambert otherwise called Conventus and divided into two sorts one retaining the general name as the County Court held every Moneth by the Sheriff or his Deputy the Under-Sheriff The other called the Turn held twice every year of both which you may read in Cromp. Jurisd fol. 231. This County Court had in ancient times the cognition of great matters as may appear by Glanvile lib. 1. cap. 2 3 4. by Bracton and Britton in divers places and by Fleta lib. 2. cap. 62. but was abridged by Magna Charta cap. 17. and much by 1 Edw. 4. cap. unico It had also and hath the Determination of certain Trespasses and Debts under Forty shillings Britton cap. 27. 28. Counting-House of the Kings Houshold Domus Computus Hospitii Regis Commonly called the Green-Cloth in respect of the Green-cloth on the Table where sit the Lord Steward the Treasurer of the Kings House the Comptroller Master of the Houshold Cofferer and two Clerks Comptrollers for daily taking the Accompts of all Expences of the Houshold making provisions and ordering payment for the same for the good Government of the Kings Houshold Servants and for paying the Wages of those below Stairs Vide 39 Eliz. cap. 7. and 4 Inst fol. 131. Courratier Fr. A Horse-courser 2 Inst fol. 719. Coursitour See Cursiter Court Curia Signifies the Kings Palace or Mansion and more especially the place where Justice is judicially administred of which you may finde Thirty two several sorts in Cromptons Jurisdictions well described whereof most are Courts of Record some not and therefore are accounted Base Courts in comparison of the rest Besides these there are also Courts Christian Smith de Rep. Angl. lib. 3. cap. 6. which are so called because they handle matters especially appertaining to Christianity and such as without good knowledge in Divinity cannot be well judged of being held heretofore by Archbishops and Bishops as from the Pope because he challenged the superiority in all Causes Spiritual but since his ejection they hold them by the Kings Authority Virtute Magistratus sui as the Admiral of England doth his Court Whereupon they send out their Precepts in their own names and not in the Kings as the Justices of the Kings Courts do And therefore as the Appeal from these Courts did lie to Rome now by the Stat. 25 Hen. 8. cap. 19. it lies to the King in his Chancery Court Baron Curia Baronis Is a Court which every Lord of a Mannor who in ancient times were called Barons hath within his own Precincts Barons in other Nations have great Territories and Jurisdiction from their Soveraigns But here in England what they are and have been heretofore see in Baron Of this Court and Court Leet read Kitchin Sir Edward Coke lib. 4. among his Copihold Cases fol. 26. b. says That this Court is twofold after a sort and therefore if a Man having a Mannor grant the Inheritance of the Copiholders to another the Grantee may keep a Court for the Customary Tenants and accept Surrenders to the use of others and make both Admittances and Grants the other Court is of Freeholders which is properly called the Court Baron wherein the suters that is the Freeholders are Judges whereas of the other the Lord or his Steward is Judge Court of Py-powders See Py-Powders Court of Requests Curia Requisitionum Was a Court of Equity of the same nature with the Chancery but inferior to it principally instituted for the relief of such Petitioners as in conscionable Cases addressed themselves by Supplication to His Majesty Of this Court the Lord Privy Seal was chief Judge assisted by the Masters of Requests and had beginning about 9 Hen. 7. according to Sir Julius Caesars Tractate on this subject Mich. 40 41 Eliz. in the Court of Common Pleas it was adjudged upon solemn Argument That this Court of Requests or the Whitehal was no Court that had power of Judicature c. See 4 Part. Inst fol. 97. Court of the Legat Was a Court obtained by Cardinal Woolsey of Pope Leo the Tenth in the Ninth year of Henry the Eighth wherein he had power to prove Wills and dispence with Offences against the Spiritual Laws c. And was but of short continuance Court Christian Curia Christianitatis So called because as in the Secular Courts the Kings Laws do sway and decide Causes so in Ecclesiastical Courts the Laws of Christ should rule and direct for which Cause the Judges in those Courts are Divines as Archbishops Bishops Arch-Deacons c. Linwoods words are these In Curia Christianitatis i. Ecclesiae in qua servantur Leges Christi cum tamen in foro regio serventur Leges mundi 2 Part. Inst fol. 488. See before in Court Court of Delegates See Delegates Court of Chivalry Curia Militaris Otherwise called the Marshal Court the Judges of it are the Lord Constable of England and the Earl Marshal of England This Court is the Fountain of the Marshal Law and the Earl Marshal is both one of the Judges and to see execution done See Constable and 4 Part. Instit fol. 123. JEhan filz frere uncle au Roys Duc de Bedford d'Anjou Conte Richemond de Kendal Conestable d'Angleterre a nostre treschere Cousin Jehan Due de Norfolk Mareshal d'Angleterre salus Nous vous mandons chargeons qui vous facez arrestre venir devant nous ou nostre Lieutenant a Westminster a la Quinsiesm du Saint

us and Wales or between us and Scotland Anno 24 Hen. 8. cap. 9. Which last are divided into West and Middle Marches Anno 4 Hen. 5. cap. 7. and 22 Edw. 4. cap. 8. The word is used in the Statute 24 Hen. 8. cap. 12. generally for the Precincts of the Kings Dominions and may be derived from the Sax. Meane i. Signum nota Character Marchers Were the Noblemen that lived on the Marches of Wales or Scotland who in times past according to Camden had their private Laws like Petty Kings which are now abolished by the Statute 27 Hen. 8. cap. 26. Of these Marchers you may read Anno 2 Hen. 4. cap. 18. 26 Hen. 8. cap. 6. and 1 Edw. 6. cap. 10. where they are called Lord Marchers See also 1 2 Ph. Ma. cap. 15. Marchet Marchetum Consuetudo pecuniaria in Mancipiorum filiabus maritandis Bract. lib. 2. tit 1. cap. 8. num 2. Merchetum vero pro filia dare non competit libero homini Extenta Manerii de Wivenho 18 Dec. 40 Edw. 3. alia 13 Edw. 3. Anno Dom. 1230. Rich. Burr tenet unum Mesuagium Et debet Tallagium Sectam Curiae Merchet hoc modo quod si maritare voluerit filiam suam cum quodam libero homine extra villam faciet pacem Domini pro maritagio si eam maritaverit alicui Custumario Villae nil dabit pro maritagio This Custom is in divers parts of England and Wales as also in Scotland and the Isle of Gernsey See Spelman at large on it Sir Edward Coke on Littl. fol. 140. says it is called Marchet as it were a Chete or Fine for Marriage By the Custom of the Mannor of Denever in the County of Carmarthen whereof Sir Edw. Rice is Lord every Tenant at the marriage of his Daughter pays x s. to the Lord which in the British Language is called Gwabr Merched i. A Maids Fee See Meiden Rents and Gwabr-merched Mareshal Marescallus from the Germ. Marschalk i. Equitum Magister With us there are divers Officers of this name the cheif is the Earl Marshal of England mentioned Anno 1 Hen. 4. cap. 7. and in divers other Statutes his Office consists especially in matters of War and Arms as well with us as in other Countreys as you may read in Lupanus de Magistratibus Franciae lib. 1. cap. Marcshallus The next is the Marshal of the Kings House whose special authority is according to Britton in the Kings place to hear and determine all Pleas of the Crown and Sutes between those of the Kings House and others within the Verge and to punish faults committed within the Verge c. Cromp. Jurisd fol. 102. Anno 18 Edw. 3. stat 2. cap. 7. and other Statutes See more of this Office in Fleta lib. 2. cap. 4. There are other Inferior Officers of this name as Marshal of the Justices in Eyr Anno 3 Edw. 1. cap. 19. Marshal of the Kings Bench Anno 5 Edw. 3. cap. 8. Who hath the custody of the Prison called the Kings Bench in Southwark I finde also in Fleta lib. 2. cap. 15. mention of a Marshal of the Kings Hall There is also a Marshal of the Exchequer Anno 51 Hen. 3. stat 5. to whom the Court commits the custody of the Kings Debtors for securing the Debts He also assigns Sheriffs Customers and Collectors their Auditors before whom they shall account Marshalsée Maresealtia Is the Court or Seat of the Marshal also used for the Prison in Southwark so called the reason whereof may be because the Marshal of the Kings House was wont perhaps to sit there in Judgment or keep His Prison See the Stat. 9 Rich. 2. cap. 5. And 2 Hen. 4. cap. 23. Mariage Maritagium Signifies not onely the lawful joyning of Man and Wife but also the interest of bestowing a Ward or a Widow in marriage Mag. Char. cap. 6. And it signifies Land given in marriage Bracton lib. 2. cap. 34. 39. See also Skene on the word Maritagium which according to Glanvil lib. 7. cap. 1. Is that portion which the Husband receives with his Wife See Dower Maritagio amisso per defaultam Is a Writ for the Tenant in Frank-marriage to recover Lands c. whereof he is deforced by another Reg. fol. 171. Maritagio forisfacto See Ferisfactura Maritagii Mark Merca from the Sax. Mearc i. Signum In ancient time I finde a Mark of Gold was eight ounces Stows Annals pag. 32. A Mark of Silver is now well known to be 13 s 4 d. Char. Reg. Joh. de dote B. Reginae quondam ux R. Ricardi Paten 3. Joh. m. 17. n. 31. Assignavimus ei pro dote sua mille marcas argenti annuatim 13 s 4 d. computatis pro Marca Marketzeld Recti●s Marketgeld Et valent per an le Streteward le Marketzeld xviii s ob in omni terra pertinente ad Honorem de Haulton Ex Cod. M. S. in Bibl. Cottoniana It signifies Toll of the Market The word Zold importing a payment I finde it elswhere written Markethgald Plac. apud Cestriam 31 Edw. 3. Mark-peny Was one peny paid at Maldon by those who had Pipes or Gutters laid or made out of their Houses into the Streets Hill 15 Edw. 1. Mr. Philips of Purveyance Market Marcatus Comes from the Fr. Marche i. Emporium forum nundinarum and signifies the same thing with us as also the Liberty or Priviledge whereby a Town is enabled to keep a Market Old Nat. Br. fol. 149. So Bracton uses it Lib. 2. cap. 24. num 6. lib. 4. cap. 46. where he shews that one Market ought to be distant from another Sex leucas dimidiam tertiam partem dimidiae By Stat. 27 Hen. 6. cap. 5. no Fair nor Market is to be kept upon any Sunday nor upon the Feasts of the Ascension of our Lord Corpus Christi the Assumption of our Blessed Lady All Saints nor Good Friday except for necessary victual and in the time of Harvest Marle Marla Is a kinde of Earth or Mineral which Men in divers parts of this Realm cast upon their Land to make it more fertile It is otherwise called Malin Anno 17 Edw. 4. cap. 4. Marlerium or Marletum A Marlepit Sciant quod ego Rogerus la Zouche dedi Henrico de Hugefort haeredibus suis c. Et quod habeant omnem libertatem liberam communiam in boscis in planis in viis in semitis in aquis in molendinis in bruariis in turbariis in quarrer in piscar in Marleriis in omnibus aliis locis aisiamentis ad praedictum Manerium de Tonge spectan Et quod capiant Marlam pro voluntate sua ad terram suam marlend Reddendo inde annuatim mihi haeredibus meis unum capellum Rosarum die Nativitatis S. Jo. Baptistae si in villa de Tonge fuerimus si non ponatur super imaginem Beatae Mariae in Ecclesia de Tonge pro omnibus servitiis Sine dat penes

in Jamaica Granadillo The tree is low and small seldom bigger then a mans leg Jampnum Furze or Gorse and Gorstyground 1 Part Croke fo 179. A word much used in Fines and seemes to be taken from the Fr. Jaulne i. Yellow because the blossomes of Furze or Gorse are so Yet Sir Edw. Coke on Litt. pa. 5. sayes Jampna signifies a waterish place quaere Jarr Span. Jarro i. An Earthen Pot with us it is taken for an Earthen pot or Vessel of Oyl containing twenty Gallons Jarrock Anno 1 Rich. 3. ca. 8. Is a kind of Cork so called with which this Statute prohibits Dyers to Dye Cloth Identitate nominis Is a Writ that lies for him who is taken upon a Capias or Exigent and committed to prison for another man of the same name whereof see the form and further use in Fitz. Nat. Br. fo 267. and Reg. of Writs fol. 194. Idemptitate nominis maintainable by Executors c. Anno 9 Hen. 6. ca. 4. Ides Idus Eight dayes in every Moneth so called In March May July and October these eight dayes begin at the eighth day of the Moneth and continue to the fifteenth in other Moneths they begin at the sixth day and continue to the thirteenth Note that the last day onely is called Ides and the first of these dayes the eighth Ides the second the seventh Ides that is the eighth or seventh day before the Ides and so of the rest Therefore when we speak of the Ides of such a Moneth in general it is to be understood of the 15th or 13th day of that Moneth See Calends Ideot Is a Greek word properly signifying a private man who has no publick Office Among the Latins it is taken for illiteratus imperitus and in our Law for non compos mentis vulgarly a natural fool The words of the Statute 17 Ed. 2. ca. 9. are Rex habebit custodiam terrarum fatuorum naturalium Whereby it appears he must be a natural fool that is a Fool a Nativitate For if he were once wise and became a Fool by chance or misfortune the King shall not have the custody of him Stam. Praerog ca. 9. Fitz. Nat. Br. fol. 232. If one have so much understanding as to measure a yard of Cloth number 20 pence or rightly name the dayes in the week or beget a Child he shall not be accounted an Ideot or Natural Fool by the Laws of the Realm See Cokes 4 Rep. Beverlys Case Idiota inquirenda vel examinanda Is a Writ directed to the Escheator or Sheriff of any County where the King hath notice of an Idiot naturally born so weak of understanding that he cannot manage his inheritance to call before him the party suspected of Idiocy and examine him and to enquire by the oaths of Twelve Men whether he be sufficiently witted to dispose of his own Lands with discretion or not and to certifie accordingly into Chancery For the King hath by his Prerogative the Protection of his Subjects and the Government of their Lands and Substance who are naturally defective in their discretion Stat. 17 Edw. 2. cap. 9. Reg. of Writs fol. 267. Jeman Sometimes used for Yeoman Sciant quod ego Johannes Smith de Bromyard in Com. Heref. Jeman dedi Ricardo Wiggemore Arm. omnia terr Tenementa c. Dat. 10 Jan. Anno 9 Hen. 6. Jeofaile Is a corruption from the Fr. I'ay faille i. Ego lapsus sum and signifies an oversight in Pleading or other Law proceedings And by the Stat. 32 Hen. 8. cap. 30. it is enacted That if the Jury have once passed upon the Issue though afterwards there be found a Jeofail in the Pleading yet judgment shall be given according to the Verdict See Broke tit Repleader A Jeofail is when the parties to a Sute have proceeded to Issue and this Pleading or Issue is so badly pleaded or joyned or the proceedings so defective that it will be Error if they proceed Then some of the said parties might by their Council shew it to the Court which occasioned many delays in Sutes for redress whereof the foresaid Statute with others in Queen Elizabeth and King James Raigns were made and yet the fault not much amended Jetsen Jetzon and Jotson from the Fr. jetter i. ejicere Is any thing cast out of a Ship being in danger of Wreck and driven to the shore by the Waves See Flotson Jews Judaei See Judaism Anciently we had a Court of the Justices assigned for the Government of the Jews See 4 Instit fol. 254. Rex Vic. Wigorn. salutem Praecipimus tibi quod clamari observari facias per totam Balivam tuam quod omnes Judaei deferant in supeperiori indumento suo ubicunque ambulaverint vel equitaverint infra villam vel extra quasi duas tabulas albas in pectore factas de lineo panno vel de pergameno ita quod per hujusmodi signum manifestè possint Judaei a Christianis discerni T. Comite apud Oxon. 30 Martii Claus 2 Hen. 3. p. 1. m. 10. in Dorso Ignitegium See Curfeu Ignoramus i We are ignorant Is properly written on the Bill of Indictments by the Grand Enquest empanelled in the Inquisition of Causes Criminal and Publick when they mislike their Evidence as defective or too weak to make good the Presentment The effect of which word so written is that all farther enquiry upon that party for that fault is thereby stopped and he delivered without farther Answer It hath a resemblance with that custom of the ancient Romans where the Judges when they absolved a person accused wrote A. upon a little Table provided for that purpose i. Absolvimus If they judged him guilty they wrote C. i. Condemnamus If they found the Causes difficult and doubtful they wrote N. L. i. Non Liquet Ikenild-stréet Stratum Icenorum Is one of the four famous ways which the Romans made in England taking name Ab Icenis who were the Inhabitants of Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgshires Cam. Brit. fol. 343. See Watling-street and LL. Edovardi Confess cap. 12. Illeviable That ought not or may not be levied As nihil is a word set upon a debt Illeviable Imbargo Span A stop or stay commonly upon Ships by publick Authority Anno 18 Car. 2. cap. 5. Imbezle or Imbesil To steal pilfer or purloyn Mentioned Anno 14 Car. 2. cap. 31. Imbracery See Embracery Imparlance interlocutio or interloquela Is a Motion or Petition made in Court by the the Tenant or Defendant upon the count of the Demandant or Declaration of the Plaintiff whereby he craves respight or a further day to put in his Answer See Broke tit Continuance Imparlance is general or special Special is with this clause Salvis omnibus advantagiis tam ad jurisdictionem Curiae quam Breve Narrationem Kitchin fol. 200. General is that which is made at large without inserting that or the like cause See Emparlance Imparsonée As Parson imparsonee persona impersonata is he that is inducted and in

Theft whereof the one is of Goods above the value of 12 d and is Felony the other under that value and is no Felony but called petit Larceny See Larceny and Felony Theft from the person or in the presence of the owner is properly called Robbery See West Part 2. Symb. Tit. Inditements Sect. 58 59 60. Theftbote Sax. theofte i. Furtum Bote compensatio est quant home prist chattel de Larone de luy faveurer maintainer nemy autrement 42 Assis pa. 5. the receiving goods from a Thief to the end to favour and maintain him the punishment whereof is ransom and imprisonment and not loss of life or Member Stanif Pl. Cor. lib. 1. ca. 43. Antique dicebatur precium quo furti reus se eximeret a dispendio vitae hodie vero de iis dicitur qui furtiva bona a latrone susceperint sceleris sui fovendi gratia quo sensu Bote pro praeda ut alias solet intelligendum est In Privilegiorum chartis ubi Theftbote conceditur intelligitur alias esse emenda furta sine consideratione Curiae Domini Regis Theftbote inquit Statutum Walliae Anno 12. Ed. 1. hoc est emenda furti sine consideratione Curiae Domini Regis Spel. And see 3 Inst fo 134. Thelonium or Breve essendi quietum de Thelonio Is a Writ lying for the Citizens or any City or Burgesses of any Town that have a Charter or Prescription to free them from Toll against the Officers of any Town or Market who would constrain them to pay Toll of their Merchandise contrary to their said Grant or Prescription Fitz. Nat. Br. fol. 226. Thelonio rationabili habendo pro Dominis habentivue Dominica Regis ad Firmam Is a Writ that lies for him that hath of the Kings Demesn in Fee-farm to recover reasonable Toll of the Kings Tenants there if his Demesn have been accustomed to be tolled Reg. of Writs fol. 83. b. Them See Team Then Significat seroum Fleta lib. 1. cap. 47 Thenecium Quod Praedicti Parochiani Decimas inferius Annotatas Ecclesiis suis persolvant scil Decimam lactis ovorum Thenecii agrorum apum mellis c. Const Rob. Winchelsey Archiep. Cant. tit de Decimis Ibi Lindewode Thenecii agrorum i. Arborum crescentium circa agros pro clausura corum Vulgarly called Hedgerows or Dikerows Thewe Georgius Grey Comes Cantii clamat in Maner de Bushton Ayton punire Delinquentes contra Assisam panis cervisiae per tres vices per Amerciamenta quarta vice pistores per Pilloriam Braciatores per Tumbrellum Rixatrices per Thewe hoc est ponere eas super scabellum vocat a Cuckingstoole Pl. in Itin. apud Cestriam 14 Hen 7. Perhaps from the Sax. theoƿ a Slave or Captive Thingus Thanus A Nobleman a Knight or Freeman Sciatis me concessisse omnibus militibus omnibus Thing is omnibus libere tenentibus qui manent in Foresta mea de Honore de Lancaster quod possunt c. Cromp. Jur. fol. 197. Thirdborow Is used for a Constable Anno 28 Hen. 8. cap. 10. which seems to be corruptly used for the Sax. freoborg i. Ingenuus fidejussor Lambert in his Duty of Constables pag. 6. Thirdings The third part of the Corn or Grain growing on the Ground at the Tenants death due to the Lord for a Heriot within a certain Mannor and Lands belonging to the Chappel of Turfat in Com. Heref. Third night-awn-hynde Trium noctium hospes By the Laws of S. Edw. cap. de Hospitibus if any guest lay a third night in an Inn he was accounted a Domestick and his Host was answerable for what offence he should commit Forman night uncuth Twa night gueste Third night awn hynde i. Prima nocte incognitus secunda hospes tertia domesticus censetur Bracton lib. 3. tract 2. cap. 10. num 2. writes it Hoghenehyne pro Agen-hyne ITem utimur quod si extranei morantur in Burgo praedicto ultra tres dies invenient fidejussores de bene gerendo se erga Burgenses Communitatem dum moram inter ipsos fecerint MS. Codex de LL. Statutis Consuetud liberi Burgi villae Mountgomer fol. 26. b. See Uncuth Third-peny Denarius tertius est ea pars mulctarum forensiumque molumentum quae in comitatu olim cedebat Comiti Rege alias duas percipiente LL. Edw. Conf. cap 31. Rex habebit 100 solidos Consul Comitatus 50. qui tertium babebit Denarium de forisfacturis c. And was anciently so fixt and appropriate to an Earldom as the Earldom of Oxford in the Raign of King Henry the Second passed by the Grant of Tertium Denarium Comitatus Oxon ut fit inde Comes de quo vide Seldens Titles of Honor. Thokes Anno 22 Edw. 4. cap. 2. Thokes or Fish with broken Bellies are not by the said Statute to be mixt or packed with Talefish Thol Thollonium Est libertas emendi vendendi in terra sua Arch. Lamb. fol. 132. Thol i. Quod Prior habet in Mercato suo dic Lunae quandam mensuram de bladis venditis quoddam certum de animalibus caeteris similibus venditis Reg. Priorat Cokeford See Toll Thorough Toll Bowgh in Yorkshire a little Village where in times past the Earls of Richmond had a pretty Castelet and a certain Custom called Thorough Toll says Camden See Toll Thrave of Corn from the Sax. threaf i. a Bundle or the British Drefa i. Twenty four Is in most parts of England Twenty four Sheaves or four Shocks six Sheaves to the Shock Anno 2 Hen. 6. cap. 2. Yet in some Counties they count but Twelve Sheaves to the Thrave As in the Case of the Burgesses of Derby Hi autem ad Festum Sancti Martini reddebant Regi duodecim Trabes annonae Domes de Burgensibus Derbiae See Peter-Corne Thrimsa from the Sax. thrim quod ternos significat Signified of old a piece of Money of Three shillings according to Lambert or rather according to Selden the third part of a shilling Tit. Of Honor fol. 604. See Weregild Thrithing Thrithingum In the Statute of Merton signifies a Court which consists of three or four Hundreds Cokes 2 Part. Instit fol. 99. Thrower See Silkthrower Thwertnik Edwardus c. Concessimus etiam quod Vicecomes noster aut haeredum nostrorum qui pro tempore fuerit in dicto Comitatu de caetero faciat executiones pro debitis recuperatis recognitis in Comitatu vel Scaccario Cestriae aut in itinere Justiciariorum qui pro tempore fuerit absque aliquo capiendo pro executione hujusmodi facienda licet etiam praeteritis temporibus usum sit prout per cartam habet ipsa Communitas scil Cestrescirae quod si aliquis in Curia nostrae c●●patus fuerit per Thwertnik se defendere possit quia haec defensio est contraria legi Communi nutrix malorum pacis emula damnosa populo pacifico Volumus etiam de consensu requisitione