Meaning of halywercfolk | Babel Free

Definitions

In Old English law, tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument, whereby they were exempted from feudal and military services.

uncountable

Examples

“For such persons within the bishopric of Durham as held their lands by the service of defending the corpse of St Cuthbert were called Halywercfolk, and claimed the privilege of not being forced to go out of the bishopric either by the King or Bishop.”

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