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From: "Paul Prescott" <>
Subject: [OEL] Latin abbreviation
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:30:47 +0100
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Listers:

I have several court rolls from the 1570s in Worcestershire.

In the margin of several of the rolls, appearing after the heading, essoins
and members of the homage/jury appears the phrase: "Jur' in Assaiam' Dne'
Regine" followed by a list of names.

>From the context I believe that this may be the swearing in of new members
of the manorial court, and I imagine the meaning is something like "Sworn on
oath to [our] Lady Queen", but can anyone be more specific with regard to an
expanded form of "Assaiam"?

TIA

Paul Prescott




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