focalis

focalis, ~ia, ~ius, ~ium 1 (as adj.) having a hearth, provided w. a fireplace, domestic. 1300 in quodam loco distanti a domo ~i (v. domus 2a). 2 for fuel. 12‥ quod non faciet consumptionem foragii vel lignorum ~ium Cart. Glouc. III 215; 1320 busca ~is pro iij s. vj d. Rec. Leic. I 377; 1349 liberacionem candelarum et lignorum ~ium Lit. Cant. II 299; 1391 pro viij carectis lignei ~is Ac. H. Derby 78; 1454 pro lingno ~i et candelis, iiij d. DCCant. DE/16. 3 (as sb. f., m., or n.) fuel. c1160 confirmasse ‥ ~ia ad eandem salinam in nemore de Kalentyr Reg. Newbattle 163; c1180 in aisiamentis fochalium Melrose 91; 1209 de glebis et de alio focallio ad focum ‥ Walteri MS Bodleian Wood empt. 1 f. 58v; c1220 ~e in petario de Elbotyll Dryburgh 74; 1270 in vij carettatis turbarum ad fucalem, ij s. et iiij d. (Cambs) MinAc 768/5 m. 2; 12‥ super jure percipiendi quoddam ~e, quod Anglice vocatur vursen et Gallice geaun (Pembs) AncD D 114; c1310 debent habere exitum suum fugelli aut brueriam Reg. S. Aug. 200; 1315 ad ~iam sive ad clausuram ChartR 101 m. 13; 1337 in ~e dict’ gawl empt’ pro camera domini Sacr. Ely II 80; ut perciperent ‥ xvj carectatus ~is ad festum S. Michaelis G. S. Alb. II 398; 1418 de bosco pro ~i et de communa pasture ‥ destituti Reg. Heref. 51; 1430 ~e de turba sufficiens ij monachis ibidem residentibus capiendum ubi ad opus meum capio Feod. Durh. 2n; 1453 Willelmo B. pro vadiis et cariagio ~iorum Ac. H. Buckingham 47. 4 hearth tax. 1505 de concessione pro tenentibus et inhabitantibus de Bromefeld et Yale in Northwallia: ‥ finis annualis vocatus exitus focall’ aliter vocatus treethtan Pat 597 m. 19(3).