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The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources edited by Dr. Andrea R. Harbin.
1) Thirteenth-century statue imposing standards of measurement, quality, and pricing upon commercial bakers and brewers; local authorities used the assize as a licensing system by amercing all sellers of bread and ale for supposed infractions of its regulations.
2) Royal law fixing prices and standards.
3) The statutory regulation or settling of the price of bread and of ale, with reference to that of grain, in accordance with the ordinance of 51 Henry III.
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The right for a bishop to protect an fugitive from justice or to intercede on his behalf. Once asylum is granted the fugitive cannot be removed, until after a month's time. Fugitives who find Asylum must pledge an oath of adjuration never to return to the realm, after which they are free to find passage to the borders of the realm by the fastest way. If found within the borders after a month's time they may be hunted down as before with no right of asylum to be granted ever again.
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1) Land cleared for use in arable farming.
2) Tract of wasteland cleared or drained to be added to village arable.
3) A piece of forest or waste, converted into arable by grubbing up the trees and brushwood.
4) To assart was to make a clearing (known as "an assart") on virgin land by rooting out trees and rendering the ground suitable for agriculture. To assartain the royal forest without a licence was a grave offence. Land assarted with licence was subject to annual payments to the exchequer.
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A range of arches supported on piers or columns. Hence arcade posts if of timber.
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Those ranks of society, esquires and above, who were entitled to bear a coat of arms.
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Holders not residing in the benefice or performing the duties attached to the benefice though still collecting the income from the benefice. An absentee priest would appoint a substitute (vicar) to perform the duties of the parish and pay him a small stipend.
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Pointed arch formed on an equilateral triangle, i.e. the radii equal to the span.
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Plant of which the leaves are represented in a classical capital of the Corinthian order.
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