bolla

1 bolla, ~us [cf. AS bolla, ON boll] 1 bowl. 1316 item ij ~is pro morter’ iij d. Rec. Leic. I 297; 1325 in xiij boll’ pro pedibus fratrum lavandis Ac. Durh. 167; 1390 de una ~a argentea rotunda ad modum parve pelvis ponderante ‥ xlviij s. ij d. Ac. Foreign 25G; 1393 quinque ~os argenti cum coopertoriis argenti Pat 338 m. 5; 1394 in ~is et boket pro coquina Cant. Coll. Ox. II 133; 1400 expense funerales: ‥ in viij ~is emptis, viij d. Test. Ebor. III 19. 2 bowl, liquid or dry measure: a of ale; b of honey (91/2 gals.); c of salt; d (Scot. and N. Eng.) ‘boll’ of grain (6 bushels, later sometimes 2 bushels); e of ore (Devon and Cornw.). a 11‥ sex ~e cerevisie apte sufficientes in cena una x hominibus Found. Waltham 16; 12‥ ad mensuram potus monachorum ‥ constituit cifum quendam magnum, flasconem et dimidium sc. duas caritates et eo amplius in se continentem, quem cifum antiqui ~am Atheluuoldi vocabant (Cart. Abingdon) MonA I 517; c1250 dedi ‥ unam ~am de qualibet brascina cervisie in villa de Kenles [Kells, Ir.], viz. illam ~am cervisie quam ego nomine telonei ‥ capere consuevi (Ch. W. de Lacy) MonA VI 1143; 1322 quatuor servientes ecclesie ad pulsandum ‥ pro ignitegio habent de refector’ j ~am cervisie, que continet terciam partem j juste DCCant. Register/J 515 (cf. ib. Register/J 278); 13‥ ~a debet continere sextarium, videlicet xij lagenas cervisie (Assisa Mens.) APScot 310.  b a1140 redderet ‥ octo ringas fabarum ‥ et octo ~as mellis Cart. Rams. III 163; 1255 quedam terra solebat reddere manerio de Brehull’ unam ~am mellis ‥ et mesura ~e quid contineat ignoramus Hund. I 21; 1276 unum ~um mellis continentem novem galonas et dim. [Swanbourne, Bucks] Ib. 47 (cf. ib. 37, PQW 94a); 1358 unam ~am mellis precii xiij s. iiij d. [Swanbourne] IMisc 177/9.  c 1202 ubi [Winwick, Northants] nullam consuetudinem capere debet ‥ nisi de sale transeunte per terram suam, sc. de careta j ~am salis SelPlCrown I 21.  d 1228 monachi singulis annis xx ~as farine avene reddent capellano Kelso I 186; 1266 recepta ‥ in farina avene x celdras, vj ~as et duas partes unius ~e ExchScot 1; c1380 quilibet equorum debet habere dimidiam ~am bone avene (Cart. Tynemouth) MonA III 319; 1469 pro ‥ quatuor ~is ordei, ‥ octo ~is frumenti ExchScot 631; 1528 cum quatuor ~is brasii Scot. Grey Friars II 314.  e 1451 de exitibus, ‥ ~is, discis, ‥ et emolumentis quibuscumque de omnibus mineris nostris in com. predictis Cl 302 m. 32; 1453 solvendo nobis ‥ quamlibet decimam ~am del le ore, videlicet cupri, stanni et plumbi Pat 477 m. 6; 1480 quintam decimam ~am de ure Pat 545 m. 14d.; 1563 octavam ~am sive vasum stanni Pat 995 m. 18.

2 bolla v. 1 bulla(3)