Middle English Dictionary Entry
pō̆rt-man-mọ̄t n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pō̆rt-man-mọ̄t n. Also portmanemot, -mannesmot, -mennesmot & (early) -mannimot, -mannemot, portemannemot. |
| Etymology | From pō̆rt-man n. & mọ̄t n.(3) & imọ̄t n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A court of the portmen, or citizens, of a town; court of ~.
Associated quotations
- (1185) Cart.Oseney in OHS 8982 : Hec concordia fuit facta in portmannimot in Oxeneford.
- (1277) Doc.in HMC Rep.8 App.409 : Les delays de la curt de portemannemot de Leycestre.
- a1300(c1200) Chron.Brakelonda in Camd.1374 : Et curia celerarii veniret ad port manne-mot.
- (1330) Chart.R.PRO4.183 : Homines suos liberos et quietos de..portmannesmot et tuncipesmot.
- (1388) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)4.210 : [The farm of the toll of the market and fair with the profits of the court of] portmannesmot.
- (1398) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.234 : [Perquisites of the court and of the] portmanmote.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)21 : The grete plees of the same toun that ben Portmannysmotes [ID(1): portmanemotes] shuld bene pleted at alle dayes a fore the ballives of the toun.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)21 : The plees of the coroune shulden ben pleted the same dayes of portmennysmootes.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)29 : The tenaunt be somouned..for to come to the next court of portmennysmoote [ID(1): portmanemot].
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)91 : That he..be att the next court of portmennysmotes suyng after to answeryn to the pleyntyff of the plee.
- a1525(?1464) Cov.Leet Bk.322 : Ric. Hykman, deyster, stode condempned a-fore the Mair and shirrefs of this Cite in the Court of portmanmote.