aleia

aleia [OF alee] , covered walk. b rampart walk (cf. alura). c alley, passage-way, or lane. 1237 fieri faciat ‥ unam aleam inter cameram regis et cameram regine Liberate 12 m. 13; 1239 in quadam alea ab hostio camere regine in eodem castro [Winton’] usque ad hostium capelle regine KR Mem 17 r. 9; 1241 habere facias ‥ carpentario nostro maeremium ad faciendum quandam ~am de coquina nostra de Windesor’ usque ad aulam nostram Cl 266.  b 1238 quod gradus aleyarum et kernellos in castro de Wyndesor’ ‥ reparari faciat Liberate 12 m. 10.  c 1368 que quidem tenementa ‥ situantur in latitudine inter quandam aleyam ‥ et vacuam placeam terre FormA 200; 1400 robuse pro viis ~arum gardini elevandis Ac. Burs. Coll. Wint.; 1404 in quodam aleio ibidem sunt vij cotagia (Bridge House Rental) MS London City RO I f. 55; 1426 lego fabrice cujusdem alee in parochia S. Botulfi extra Aldrichgate [Lond’] Reg. Cant. II 365; 1440 in aleya ‥ vocata Norton Aley Cl 291 m. 31d.; 1574 in quadam allea sive venella vocata Shippe Alley Pat 1121 m. 29.