Middle English Dictionary Entry
feffẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | feffẹ̄ n. Also feoffe(e, feffi(e. |
| Etymology | AF fe(o)ffé ppl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
One who is invested, singly or jointly, with an estate in trust; feffe of (upon) trust, feffe to (another's) use.
Associated quotations
- [ (1321-2) RParl.1.390b : Ele estoit juynt feffe ove Thom' de Patemere, son Baron, de deux Messuag'. ]
- (1411) EEWills19/29 : Alle þe londes and tenementes..stondynge in feffies handes.
- (1415) EEWills24/9 : The forsaide Thomas requyreth his feoffes that they perforne [etc.]..for all the trust that he hath yn hem.
- (1420) Dec.Bolour in NPalaeog.Soc.1 (Hrl Charter 83.D.32)249 : Y, Thomas Bolour..was mad feofe by Rychard Seyntbarbe of alle the londes and tenementes, sutes, seruyses, and reuercions.
- (1424) EEWills60/4 : I declare here my laste wille, als wel to my said feffez as to my ioint feffes.
- (1429-30) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.80 : Yat ye saydys feffys mak a state of ye thirde part of ye landys, rentys, and tenementys of ye sayd Custance in Yorke to Eustace, my wyffe.
- (1439) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.513 : Preying..all my feffees of trost in my maneres, londe, [etc.]..this to performe, execute, and fulfille.
- (1439) RParl.5.8a : My Lord ye Cardinall and the Lord Hungerford..Feoffes with the Archebisshop of Caunterbury of a part of the Duchie of Lancastr', in certeins Castells, Hoenours, Maners, Lordships, Lands, Tenements, Rentz, [etc.]..by the Feffement of the..Fader to our said Soverain Lord.
- (1442) RParl.5.57a : The seid Feffees have no title ner interesse therynne, but only upon trust, and to his use, to execute his Wille.
- (1452) Lin.DDoc.62/24 : I wolle that the manoyers..be solde to my feoffies, and the mony therof commyng to be delyuered to myn executours to pay my dettes and to performe my wille and testament.
- (1474) Stonor1.142 : I wulle that my ffeffees make astate to William my sunne..or els stonde ffeffees to his use..in my Maner of Stonor.