1lawto enfranchise, make free, release from feudal obligations:
(
1381
)
si vous desirez d’enfranchiser et manumettre les ditz neifs
iii 99
1lawenfranchised, subject to privileges or citizenship rights:
(
1378
)
citees et burghs e autres bones viles enfranchisés
ii 7 i
(
1385
)
neifs [...] s’enfuent deinz citees [...] enfranchisés
iii 212
2
enfranchised, admitted to membership of a craft guild:
(
s.xiv-xv
)
qe chescun mestre, quaunt il soit enfraunchesé
i 67
1freeman, freed man, one who is free from feudal obligations and enjoys privileges:
(
s.xiv2;
MS: c.1400
)
Benoiez auxi sont les enfranchisez
(Latin: libertati)
59
2freeman, member of a guild:
(
1368
)
Item, fait a remembrer qe Johan de Welburne vient as ditz gardeinz pur estre enfranchisé et fust granté a tiel entent q’il dust venir et aver son shope en Chepe
108
(
1377-79
)
Item, receu de lez enfraunchisez .vj. li. .xiij. s. .iiij. d.
180
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