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colpo, ~onus [OF colpon, copon] , ‘culpon’, piece cut off, length (of candle). s1194 cum rex Scotie ad curiam regis Anglie venerit, ‥ habebit quotidie ‥ xl grossos longos colpones de dominica ~a regis et iiijxx colpones de alia ~a expensabili [Rec. Scot. 107: colponos] R. Howd. III 245 (v. candela 1c); in hac feria [quarta proxima ante Cenam Domini] tradantur magistro infirmorum xxiiij ~uni grossi et longi, qui durent ad servicium super herciam per illas tres noctes sequentes Cust. Cant. 379; in vigilia S. Mich. quisque monachus qui ‥ in domo infirmorum ‥ pausat de Sabbato in Sabbatum habeat vij ~unos [Cust. Cant. Abbr. 270: †colpinos] candele, ita quod xj vel xij teneant j lib. Ib. 371.

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