Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An honorary kind of feudal tenure, on condition of service due, not to any lord, but to the king only.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eng. Law) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.
- noun a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like.
- noun See under
Petit .
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Examples
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Drascombe, and in the reign of Edward I, Walter de Bromehall held it 'by the sergeanty of finding our Lord the King, whensoever he should hunt in the forest of Dartmoor, one bow and three barbed arrows.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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These services had the name of _magnum servitium_, or grand sergeanty, as being attached to the person of the king, and involve the honour of knighthood in all cases; no person under the rank of a knight, nor a minor or female tenant, being allowed to perform them.
Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip
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"That the manor of Scrivelsby is holden by grand sergeanty, to wit by the service of finding, on the day of coronation, an armed knight, who shall prove by his body, _if need be_, that the king is true and rightful heir to the kingdom."
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Of course the wingnuts also want it out of the house because to them it smells of communism, long, gray corridors with open buckets of vomit and drill-sergeanty medical providers who are really government bureaucrats in disguise.
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