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enfranchiser (1368)
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enfranchiser (1368)

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enfraunchiser;  enfrauncheser,  enfrauncheiser  
  FEW:  frank *15/ii,163a Gdf:  enfranchisé 3,158c GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  enfranchise v.  MED:  enfraunchisen v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

law(of people) to make free, into freemen, enfranchise: 
( 1381 )  si vous desirez d’enfranchiser et manumettre les ditz neifs  Rot Parl1 iii 99

p.p. as a.

lawenfranchised: 
( 1378 )  citees et burghs e autres bones viles enfranchisés  Stats ii 7 i
( 1385 )  neifs [...] s’enfuent deinz citees [...] enfranchisés  Rot Parl1 iii 212
( s.xiv-xv )  qe chescun mestre, quaunt il soit enfraunchesé  YMB i 67

p.p. as s.

1freeman, freed man: 
( s.xiv2; MS: c.1400 )  Benoiez auxi sont les enfranchisez (Latin: libertati)  Lichfield 59
2freeman (of a guild): 
( 1368 )  Item, fait a remembrer qe Johan de Welburne vient as ditz gardeinz pur estre enfranchisé et fust granté a tiel entent q’il dust venir et aver son shope en Chepe  Goldsmiths 108
( 1377-79 )  Item, receu de lez enfraunchisez . vj li. xiij s. iiij d.  Goldsmiths 180
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