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Waliscus

Waliscus, Wiliscus [AS wælisc, wilisc], (opp. to Anglicus or sim.) of the (Celtic) people of the former Roman Britain, ‘British’, ‘Welsh’, (also spec.) of Wales, Welsh. ibi vj hidae; una ex his habet ~am consuetudinem et alia Anglicam (Heref) DB I 181ra; v hidae Anglicanae ‥ et iij hidae ~ae (Heref) DB I 181vb; j hidam Walescam (Heref) DB I 182va; xij ambre cervisie Wylisce [Wilisc ealað] (Quad.) GAS 118; si servus Waliscus [AS: þeowwealh] Anglicum hominem occidat debet ille cujus est ‥ lx s. dare pro vita sua (Quad.) Ib. 121; duodecim lahmen id est legis homines debent rectum discernere Walis et Anglis: sex ~i et sex Anglici (Quad.) Ib. 377; qui leges apostabit, si fuerit Anglicus vel Dacus vel ~us vel Albanicus aut insulicola (Leg. Ed.) Ib. 657; habebatur sub alis machine, inter ipsam et murum, tugurium vimineum, quod vulgo cattus ~us dicitur, in quo vij ‥ commanebant juvenes Osb. Bawdsey clxxv; 1246 wlneraverunt M. forestarium ‥ cum duabus sagittis ~is SelPlForest 80.

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