sergeantry

"sergeantry" and one or two other quaint archaisms.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Walter Aungevin held land in Auri and Hole (near South Molton) under Edward III, 'by sergeantry that whensoever our lord the King should hunt in the forest of Exmoor, he should find for him two barbed arrows.'

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

In the reign of Edward I, Lord Martin held it 'by sergeantry to find a man with

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Notwithstanding all drill and sergeantry, the German Army remains a collection of human beings -- and human beings more learned, if not better educated, than our own race!

New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various

A sergeantry, called woodward of the Lee Baile, was then held by John Throckmorton, Esq.

The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846

If the tenant was in an office about the king's person, this gave rise to sergeantry; the persons who cultivated his lands may be considered as holding by socage.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

Free-born Israelites are enslaved, and the land which they had long held by a much more honourable tenure than grand sergeantry itself, even by immediate grant from the crown of heaven to them as a peculiar people above all people on the earth, they now held by as base a tenure as villenage itself, by, from, and under, the kings of Persia, whose vassals they were.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721

Earl of the shire or county denoted the king's thane, or tenant by grand sergeantry or knight's service, in chief or in capite; his possessions were sometimes the whole territory from whence he had his denomination, that is, the whole county; sometimes more than one county, and sometimes less, the remaining part being in the crown.

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644