cartulary
noun
cartularies
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pluralof cartulary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In one of the cartularies of St. Edmund, the "Lancetti de Hardwick" were to cleanse the latrines of the monastery.
From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Jocelin de Brakelond
The D'Ewes collection was a curiously miscellaneous one, containing much trivial matter side by side with learned treatises, transcripts of important cartularies, monastic registers, public and private muniments of the most varied description.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
Here were descents of families, and tenures of estates; authorities of charters and of cartularies; curious customs of counties, cities, and great towns.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
The limitations of rights of property have left as distinct traces in the cartularies as the direct consequences of personal unfreedom.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
The sooty mass of chronicles and historical books and cartularies accumulated, and the stammering grace, the often exquisite awkwardness of the monks, placing the poetic remains of antiquity in a ragout, were dead.
From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
