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feffur (1310)

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feffur (1310)

feffor,  feffour,  feffer;  feoffer,  feoffor,  feoffour, 
(pl. feffeours,  feffoures,  feoffure  YBB Ed II xvi 117)  
  FEW:  *fehu *15/ii,117a Gdf:  fieffeor 3,785a GdfC: TL: DEAF:  fief (feifeor)  DMF:  fieffeur  TLF: OED:  feoffor/feoffer n.  MED:  feffour n.  DMLBS:  feoffator 921b

s.

lawfeoffor, one who invests another with a fief
( 1310 )  sire M. ad esté seisi tot soun temps de garreine, et soun feffour devaunt luy  YBB Ed II ii 177
( 1347-48 )  De quele custume la dite Alice, ses auncestres et lour feffours estoient seisitz peisiblement du temps dont memoire ne court  Rot Parl1 ii 207
( 1381-82 )  jeo present et le feoffee moy disturbe et jeo port quare impedit et il luy entitille par moun pere le feoffor del maner  Exchequer Chamber 36.34
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  vous prions [...] que vous seuffréz les ditz feofféz faire et accomplir franchement l’entent de lour feoffer touchant les avantdites terres et tenementz  Lett & Pet 297.18
( 1403-04 )  et dont ils ne feurent enfeoffez d'estre ent enheritez, mes de parfourner la volunté de lour feoffour  Rot Parl1 iii 539

See also:

enfeoffer1  feffer1  fefferesce  refeffour 
This is an AND2 Phase 2 (F-H) entry. © 2006-2008 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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