cartulary
Americannoun
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cartularies
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of cartulary
C16: from Medieval Latin cartulārium, from Latin chartula a little paper, from charta paper; see card 1
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The cartulary from which it is drawn was compiled in 1309.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
There is an interesting note of the outfit provided for an Austin nun of Lacock on her profession in 1395, attached to a page of the cartulary of that house.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
Sircies, Peagins, Assineboines, Crees, uskegoes, Salteaux, Chipwayans, Loucheaux, and Dogribs, not including Esquimaux, was not the only cartulary carried by me into the prairies.
From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by William Francis Butler
The cartulary mentions his name at various intervals from 1197 to 1202.
From The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor
Again in a charter copied into the hospital cartulary the last witness is “Master Simon, who wrote this charter.”
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
They appear as entirely free to dispose of such property, and at every step we find in the cartularies of Glastonbury Abbey proofs of the existence of a numerous and powerful 'sergeant' class.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
Charlemagne was conscious of this, and therefore ordered in his cartularies, that no judge should hold a court of justice except in the morning on an empty stomach.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving
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
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
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
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