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blancus [OF blanc] 1 white. b (in proper names). 1278 sicut ~um cheminum [(?) chalk road] ducit versus Tuewelgate ‥ et sic ad ~um cheminum de Warneford (Compositio) Reg. Wint. 1282–1304 652 (cf. ib. 718, ChartR II 367); 1418 lego ‥ unam tunicam †blancam [? l. blaveam] seu blodii coloris Reg. Heref. 44; 1442 j vestimentum cheker coloris albi et †blanci [l. blavei] Test. Ebor. II 88.  b Blancus [habet] vi domos DB II 104; Dimidius Blancus [habet] j domum DB II 106; s1188 ad Blancham Guardam [Palestine] Diceto YH 56; s1239 Blanchum Castrum [Blane Castle] in Wallia M. Par. Maj. III 619; 1242 Blanca Landa [Northumb] CalPat 270. 2 a ‘blanched’ (tested by assay). b ‘blanch’ (payable in ‘blanched’ silver or the equivalent). c (sb. n.) ‘blanched’ silver. a reddit xij libras ~as de xx in ora DB I 39b; modo [valet] viii [li.] blanc’ et xx sol. ad numerum DB II 131; [valet] lxxxx solidos blancas [sic] DB I 135; 1130 vic. reddit compotum de xx m[arcis] arg[enti] bl[ancis] de firm a de C. Pipe 40; 1156 debet xli li. bl[ancas] et xxx li. et viii s. numero Pipe 8; 1199 reddendo ‥ ccc libras sterlingorum ~orum (Ch. London) MGL II 250; 1199 reddendo per annum c octo li. sterlingorum blanceas de civitate Norwic’ RChart 20b; 1204 terram de Brudeham de qua nobis reddi solebant per annum l solidi blanc’ Ib. 141b; 1213 reddendo ad scaccarium nostrum xl libras ~as et x libras numero (Andover) BBC 229; 1222 computate vicecomiti Wiltes’ in firma manerii de Mere ciiijxx libras blanch’ Cl 521a; s1270 cum [cives] temporibus transactis solvissent ‥ ccc libras sterlingorum ~orum, de cetero solvent cccc libras sterlingorum computatorum Leg. Ant. Lond. 124.  b 1167 [debet] pro suo supplemento de firma bl[anca] lxxiiii s. et iiii d. numero Pipe 40; constat ‥ quid sit quasdam firmas solvi ~as, quasdam numero; firma quidem ~a solvitur cum ipsa, facto examine, dealbatur Dial. Scac. II 4E.  c 1169 debet iiii li. et x s. pro ~o firme Pipe 69; 1205 in puram ‥ elemosinam ‥ solutam ab omni ‥ exactione seculari et de ~o quod ad scaccarium inde reddi deberet RChart 158b; 1242 rex perdonavit eidem N. blanc[um] tocius corporis comitatus Ebor’ usque ad summam xl li., et de residuo predicti blanci dedit respectum KR Mem 20 r. 12.