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  • ESCUAGE
    Service of the shield. One of the varieties of tenure in knight's service, to the duty imposed being that of accompanying the king to the wars for forty days, at the tenant's own charge, or sending a substitute. In later times, this service was commuted for a certain payment in More...
  • ESCURARE
    To scour or cleanse. Cowell.
  • ESGLISE, OR EGLISE
    A church. Jacob.
  • ESKETORES
    Robbers, or destroyers of other men's lands and. fortunes. Cowell.
  • ESKIPPAMENTUM
    Tackle or furniture ; outfit. Certain towns in England were bound to furnish certain ships at their own expense and with double skippage or tackle. Cowell.
  • ESKIPPER, ESKIPPARE
    To ship.
  • ESKIPPESON
    Shippage, or passage by sea. Spelled, also, "skippeson." Cowell.
  • ESLISORS
    See ELISORS.
  • ESNE
    In old law. A hireling of servile condition.
  • ESNECY
    Seniority; the condition or right of the eldest; the privilege of the eldest-born. Particularly used of the privilege of the eldest among coparceners to make a first choice of purparts upon a voluntary partition.
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