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durnedies

durnedies [ME dorne dai] , ‘durn-day’ (app. day on which burgage rents were payable under pain of sealing tenants’ doors; hence borough court held on that day). Cf. consignare 1b. 1388 curia dornediei ibidem tenta (Rec. Bridgwater) Som Rec. Soc. LIII no. 434 (cf. ib. no. 322: 1378 durneday, xxx s. vj d.; perquisitorum istius curie cum pipoudre, ix s. vij d.; ib. p. xviii).

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