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(law, historical) A form of collective suretyship and punishment under English law among the members of a tithing..
King John granted to the prior and convent, in all their manors and lands, sac, soc, tol, and theam, infangenthef, and outfangenthef, with the ordeals or judgment by fire, water, and iron, and a common gallows in each manor; with a view of frankenpledge, and assize of bread and ale, of all their tenants...
The servants of the Crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other.
Entire vills sir Henry Spelman conjectures to have consisted of ten freemen, or frank-pledges.
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Frankpledge means (law, historical) A form of collective suretyship and punishment under English law among the members of a tithing..
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King John granted to the prior and convent, in all their manors and lands, sac, soc, tol, and theam, infangenthef, and outfangenthef, with the ordeals or judgment by fire, water, and iron, and a common gallows in each manor; with a view of frankenpledge, and assize of bread and ale, of all their tenants...
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