Diffidare, 407, to defy.

Disfacere, 106, to annul, to disregard.

Disparagatio, 282, 413, disparagement.

Disratiocinare, 84; Disrationare, 103, to prove one's cause or disprove
one's adversary's in a court of law, to prosecute a suit to its deter-
mination.

Dissaisiare, 245; Dissaisire, 245, to dispossess.

Dissaisina, 145, dispossession.

Districtio, 156, 393, distraint or distress; sometimes the thing seized in
the distraint.

Distringere, 156, to distrain, to compel by seizure of goods.

Disturbare, 142, to prevent the due course of justice by a bribe or by
hush-money; 158, to disturb.

Divisa, 144, a devise by will; the will itself.

Divisa, 101, 154, 159, the boundary of landed property; also a court held
on the boundary to settle disputes of the tenants. THORPE.

Domesmenn, 61, judges.

Dominicum, 97, 122, demesne.

Dominicus, 87, held as demesne, or connected with it.

Dominium, 83, demesne.

Duellum, 81, 153, trial by battle.

Dyscolus, 206, perverse: from the Greek.

Ealdorman, 61, the chief magistrate of a shire. Lat. dux or princeps,
Old Ger. Heretoga.

Einescia, 392, seniority. Fr. aînesse.

Emenda, 289, 353, amends.

Emendare, 81, 83, to make reparation.

Emendatio, 75, reparation, amends ;= A. S. bot.

Eorlas, 62, noblemen, opposed to ceorlas.

Equitatura, 432, the furniture of a horse, or horse soldier.

Errare, 139, to go on the eyre, or itinerate.

Escaeta, 217; Eschaeta, 142; Eskaeta, 285; Excaeta, 337, the reversion
of a fief to the lord, on the extinction or corruption of the blood of the
tenant; the estate so escheated. From the Old Fr. eschoir = cadere, to fall.
Escaetor, 395, an escheater, an officer who received the escheats of the
Crown.

Escambium, 414; Excambium, 416, an exchange.

Esnecca, 184, a ship of transport.

Essartum, 151, 195, 198, a clearance in the forest; variously derived from
ex-arare, ex-ercere, ex-sarrire; spelled also assartum.

Essayum, 166, 173; Essaium, 183, trial, examination by fire; examen.
Essonium, 139, 395, an excuse.

Estoverium, 150; Estuverium, 336, fire-wood; originally provision or
stuff generally. Fr. étouffer, Lat. stuffare.

Eventus, 501, used apparently for attendance in parliament.

Ewagium, 303, = aquagium, a tax on water carriage.

Excidentia, 217, escheats.

Exhaeredare, 93, to dispossess of an inheritance.

Exitus, 179, outgoings, issue.

Exorbitare, 127, to go beyond bounds.

Expeditatio, 152, 340, the mutilation of dogs, by cutting their claws so as

to prevent them from being used in hunting. See p. 340.

Expeditio, 86, 87, the duty of military service, incumbent on all allodial

Falco, 341, a falcon.

Falconarius, 171, a falconer.

Falsarius, 166, 184, a forger or depraver of the coinage.

Falsonarius, 252, a forger; 255, a forger of charters especially.

Falsoneria, 143, forgery of coin or charters.

Felonia, 408, felony.

Feodatarius, 276, a feudal dependant.

Feodi-firma, 284, fee farm.

Feodum, 133; Feodus, 102; Feudum, 132, a fief, an estate held by tenure from a superior lord; 496, a fee, in the modern sense of a payment as honorarium.

Feoffamentum, 355, 392, feoffment, the act of conveying an estate in fee. Feoffator, 468, a feoffor.

Feoffatus, 468, a feoffee, the person receiving or holding such an estate. Feonatio, 340, the fawning time. Fr. foinesun. Med. Lat. fannatio. Feorm-fultum, 73, rent paid in kind from royal demesne or public lands. Feos-bot, 72, amendment of the coinage.

Ferdingus, 102, a freeman of the lowest grade.

Feria, 84, 257, a fair.

Feudatus, 78, in possession of a fief.

Fidelitas, 145, fealty.

Filare, 497, to file, to string on a thread; see Affilare.

Filum, 160, the thread or course of a stream.

Finis, 152, a payment made to procure the end of a lawsuit or immunity from molestation, and in that sense a fine; not a mulct by way of punishment. Compare our fines upon leases.

Firma, 85, 87, 97, 178, ferm or farm; a fixed sum or rent payable by way of composition; the profits of the county jurisdictions let at fixed sums to the sheriffs.

Firmarius, 253, a person who fermed, compounded by an annual fixed payment for the revenues of his official position.

Fiscus, 123, the Exchequer; 79, revenue in general.

Flyma, 65, a runaway.

Folgare, 65, to follow. Germ. folgen.

Folgarius, 101, a follower. Germ. folger.

Folkesmote, 104, meeting of the folk or people in the shiremoot.

Foreoath, 64, the oath taken by plaintiff and defendant at the beginning of a suit.

Foresta, 93, 198, forest. Ger. Först.

Forestel, 84, an assault; from fore and stellan, to spring. THORPE.

Forisfacere, 87, to transgress; 88, 97, to forfeit.

Forisfactura, 75, 81, forfeiture.

Forstallatio, 152, obstruction or hindrance; from fore and stellan; see

Forestel.

Fortitudo, 82, force.

Fossatum, 143, a ditch.

Francus, 267, a freeman, a freeholder.

Francus-plegius, 138, a frank-pledge; a member of an association for mutual security; see p. 74.

Francus-tenens, 144, a freeholder; generally in socage.

Frith, 63, peace.

Frith-borg, 74, surety for the keeping of the peace; Frithborga, 74, an association of ten men for mutual security = frankpledge; Frithborgus, 75, a member of such an association.

Frith-borge-heved, 74, the head of a frank-pledge.

Frith-bot, 71; Frithesbot, 72, amendment of peace, payment to atone for breach of peace.

Frith-gegildas, 65, members of an association for mutual protection.
Fugare, 104, 375, to hunt.

Fugatio, 104, right of hunting.

Fundus, 221, the soil: often-feodus.

Furca, 113, the gallows.

Furnum, 108, an oven.

Furragium, 346, provender. From furrare, to forage. Gothic fodr. Fyrd, 61, the expeditio of the allodial system; the duty of military service

for the defence of the country.

Fyrdung, 72; Fierdfare, 102, the going on the fyrd.

Fyrdwit, 61, the penalty for neglecting the fyrd.

G

Gablum, 84, 86, tax; from A. S. gafol. Fr. gabelle.

Gafol, 63, tax.

Gaiola, 138, 350, a prison, a gaol. Fr. geôle; from the Lat. caveola.
Garba, 340, a trave of corn. Old High Ger.

Fr. gerbe.

Ger. Geld.

Geneatland, 70, land cultivated by geneats, or persons holding by service.

Neotan, to enjoy. THORPE.

Gersumna, 87, an exaction.

Gesithcundman, 61, a man in the rank of gesith or comes; a companion of a king or great lord, and so ennobled by service.

Gewitenemot, 95, witenagemot.

Gieresgieve, 259, the same as gersuma, a bribe given to the king's officers for connivance. BRADY.

Gilda, 158, 301; Gylda, 155, a voluntary association for mutual protection, for common mercantile aims, or for religious worship.

Gildwite, 302, probably a miswriting for childwite.

Gisarma, 363, a dart.

Grangia, 143, a grange, a farm-house.

Grantum, 282, security given.

Gravamen, 320, 322, a grievance.

Gravare, 287, to aggrieve.

Gregarius, 169: miles gregarius seems to mean a knight employed properly in military command, as contrasted with one who merely holds a knight's fee in land.

Grith, 73, immunity from molestation.

Guerra, 144; Gwerra, 293, war.

Gwerrina, 293, in a state of war.

H

Haia, 143, a hedge. Fr. haie; Old High Ger. Haga.

Halbergettus, 292, the material of which the common hauberk was made.

Halimotum, 101, the hall-moot, the local court of a franchise.

Hangewitha, 84, the penalty for hanging a thief without process of law. DUCANGE. Thorpe, however, defines it as a fine for letting a prisoner escape from prison.

Hansa, 303, a trade guild.

Hanshus, 105, the hall where the hansa or guild met.

Haracia, 350, 357, a stud of horses. Fr. haras.

Haubio, 340, a hauberk.

Healsfang, 73, the sum a man sentenced to the pillory would have to pay to save him from that punishment. THORPE. Heals-fang properly is the pillory itself.

Heimfara, 84, a breach of peace by forcibly entering a man's house.
Heorthfest, 101, having a fixed hearth or dwelling.

Herbagium, 339, herbage.

Heriot, 73; Heriet, 108, a heriot; from here-geatwu, the military equipment of a vassal, which on his death reverted to his lord. In the later laws the heriot is often Latinized, as relevium; but properly it differed from the relief which was the payment made by the heir to secure the possession of his inheritance.

Heyrinus, 341, a heron.

Hida, 83, 200, a hide of land: a measure varying at the time of Domesday, but in Henry II's reign fixed at 100 acres.

Hlafordsokna, 65, the jurisdiction of a hlaford, lord.
Hokeday, 323, the second Tuesday after Easter.

Homagium, 123, homage, the process of acknowledging oneself the homo or vassal of a feudal superior.

Hominium, 93, homage.

Honor, 102, an aggregation of knights' fees, held as an honour; as the qualifying holding of a baron or earl.

Horn-gelth, 122, a tax upon horned cattle, cornage.

Hornus, 236, of this year; applied to a hawk that has not moulted.

Hospitatus, 85, inhabited.

Hostiarius, 498, =ostiarius, a door-keeper, an usher. Fr. huissier.
Hostium, 501, = ostium, a door.

Hundredarius, 378, the hundred-man, the bailiff of the hundred. Hundredum, 74, 86; Hundredus, 80, 137; Hundretum, 101; Hundret, 82, 85, 99, the local division called the hundred; see pp. 67, 74: frequently also the hundred court.

Husting, 104; Hustenge, 104; Hustingus, 302, the court of a borough
held in a house; from hus, a house, and thing, an assembly.
Huthesia, 376; Hutesium, 363, hue and cry made after criminals.
Hyda, 66, a hide of land; see Hida.

Hydagium, 360, a tax imposed at so much a hide.

Hynde, 66, the number ten.

Hynden, 66, an association of ten men in a frith-gild.

Hyndenman, 66, the head man over ten hyndens.

I

Imbreviare, 139, to register.

Imbrochiare, 369, to tap a barrel, to broach a cask.

Impetrare, 297, to obtain by application, generally used of a writ or papal bull.

Implacitare, 79, 108, to implead, to bring an action against.
Imprisonamentum, 152, imprisonment.

Imprisonare, 284, to imprison.

Incaustum, 167, ink. From the Greek, eyravσTOV.
Incrementum, 245, increase of profit over ferm-rent.

Indictamentum, 354, indictment.

Infangentheof, 75, jurisdiction over a thief caught within the limit of the estate to which the right belonged.

Infeodare, 311, 377, to enfeof.

Ingenium, 131, a contrivance; malum ingenium,' trickery, evasion of obligations.

Inland, 70, terra dominicalis,' the demesne.

Instauramentum, 143, the stocking of a farm.

Instaurare, 285, to stock a farm.

Interciare, 75, to demand warranty of a person in whose hands stolen property is found. Fr. éntiercer.

Interprisa, 361, a usurpation.

Intromittere, 415, (se), to meddle with.

Invadiare, 147, to put in pledge for a loan, to mortgage.

Invenire, 179, 273, to find, in the sense of to furnish.

Irrotulamentum, 495, enrolment.

Irrotulare, 493, to enrol.

Jieresgieve, 258,=gieresgieve.

J

Jocalia, 346, jewels. Fr. joyau =jocale.

Judicium, 74, 81, 144, the ordeal.

Juisa, 137, the ordeal.

Jurata, 379, a jury.

Justitia, 74,-justitiarius, a justice or judge.
Justitiabilis, 101, amenable to jurisdiction.
Justitiare, 133, to bring to justice.

K

Kalendarium, 497, a calendar, a list of agenda.

Kidellus, 284; Kydellus, 292, a weir.

L

Laga, 98, law. Icelandic, lög.

Lagan, 303, the right to matters thrown up by the sea, lying on the shore. Lageman, 85, a person possessing jurisdiction or qualified to exercise it. Lanutus, 441, woolly; pellis lanuta, a wool-fell.

Lardarium, 346, a larder.

Legalis, 137, lawful; legalis homo, a man possessed of all the rights of a freeman.

Leod, 60, the people. Ger. Leute.

Leporarius, 150, a harrier.

Lesta, 292, 441, lading, a last, a weight of leather and other substances. Lestagium, 103, a custom exacted on a ship's lading.

Lesth, 85, lading.

Leuca, 159, a measure of 1500 paces; later, a league.

Leue, 303,=leva, an exaction, or compulsory gift to the magistrate, like

scottale.

Leugata, 172, 233, the territory surrounding a town, at the radius of a leuca.