Middle English Dictionary Entry
corrōdie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | corrōdie n. Also corodie. |
| Etymology | AF corodie & ML corrodium, vr. of conredium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An allowance of provisions for lodging, board, money, etc., granted, usually by a religious house, to a grantee as an annuity for life-term or to successive grantees in perpetuity; also, a bill making such a grant. [See Pollard and Maitland Hist.Eng.Law (1923) 2.134-5.]
Associated quotations
- (1412) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.588 : [Laurence..did procure and cause to be made..another Bull, called a] Corody.
- (1429-30) Will Durham in Sur.Soc.280 : To John ffelton his hous fre terme of his lyfe, he to reparell hit, and corrodye in seint katerynes term of his lyfe.
- (1433) RParl.4.424b : Whanne Offices or Corrodies falle, yat they myght bee yeven to suche persones.
- (1449) RParl.in OHS 5830 : We..have relesed to the Abbot and Covent of Glastyngbery a corrodie of an C s. to the effecte and entente that the said Abbot and Covent sholde graunte an annuell pension of an C s. to the said Wardeyn and Scolers and to theire successours.
- (1450) RParl.5.206a : Divers Abbottes..have atte divers tymes..yevene, graunted, ratified, and confermed..to divers persones, Tenementes, Annuytees, Corodies, Offices..and other Possessions.
- (1461) RParl.5.474a : Provided..that any Acte..be no hurt nor prejudice unto Rauf Legh, as of any Graunte made unto hym of the Corrodie of Croyland.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)393/20 : They graunted to hym and to his wyf..two corrodies of ij mynchons and a corrodye of one seruant to ther susteynynge.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)483/23 : For this yifte..the forsaid mynchons yaf to her a corodye of j mynchon for euer in the abbey of Godestowe.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)153-4 : Yff hit woll lyke the kynge to yeve no corodie nor pencion, wich he hath be ryght of his corowne, off euery abbey priory, and oþer howses founded vpon hospitalite be any off his progenitours, in to Þe tyme that his entente þerin be..delybered with his fforsaid counsell..than shall men off his howsold be rewarded with corodyes, and haue honeste sustenance in þer olde dayis..Ffor such corodes and pencions were ffirst geven to þe kyng ffor the same entent.
- (1477)Let.in Vale Miscel.(Add 48031)p.135 : Copie of the writte for the corrodie of William Cook in the pryorie of Coventrie.