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Brede
Brede [adj.], broad, Bract. Also in Saxon, deceit.
Castellain
fortified house; a person having the custody of one of the Crown mansions; an officer of the forest, Bract.; Manw.
Chacea
a certain district; also the way through which cattle are driven to pasture, otherwise called a drove-way, Blount; Bract. 1. 4, c. xliv.
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Chevge, Chevagium, or cherage
held land in villeinage to their lords in acknowledgement, and was a kind of head or poll money, Bract. 1. 1, c. x.
Couthutlaugh
outlaw and cherished or concealed him; for which offence he underwent the same punishment as the outlaw himself, Bract.
Croyses
Croyses, cruce signati, so called because they wore the sign of the cross upon their garments, Bract. 1. 5, pt. 2, c. ii. The term was used to signify crusaders.
Custos placitorum coron'
Custos placitorum coron' (the keeper of the pleas of the Crown). The custos rotulorum, Bract. Lib. 2, c. 5.
Deciners, Decenniers, or Doziners
ten households; as every person, bound for himself and his neighbours to keep the peace, was styled decennier, Bract. 1. 3, t. 2, c. xv.
Defendemus
to lay any incumbrance on the thing given other than what is contained in the deed of donation, Bract, 1. 2, c. xvi.
Eire, or eyre
was held every three years by the justices of the forest journeying up and down for that purpose, Bract. 1 3, c. xi. A journey, route, circuit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 534
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