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frithmotum [ME frith = peace + mot] , (Chesh) ‘frithmoot’, earlier frithmannesmot (perh. orig. a court to assist in keeping the peace), form of rent in the Forest of Delamere. Cf.VCH Chesh II 177. 1247 idem J. r. c. ‥ de xvij li. de fridmanesmote Pipe Chesh 87 (cf. ib. 92: 1250 idem R. r. c. ‥ de xvij li. de fridmanesmot’); 1278 de fridmoto foreste de Mara, sc. pro escapuris averiorum in foresta KR Ac 485/22 m. 1; 1302 preceptum fuit forestariis de la Mare quod de terris et catallis libere tenencium de Worleston’ fieri faciant dim. m. annuatim solvendam per eosdem pro ~o PlRChester 15 r. 12d.; 1302 particule de ~o: de villata de Magna Moldworth j m., de villata de Dunham [etc.] MinAc 771/3 m. 6 (cf. Ac. Chamb. Chesh. 35); c1339 cum acquietancia panagii, palagii, ~i, et halmoti ad terminum xvj annorum (Cart. Middlewich) Chetham Soc. NS CVIII 299; 1360 de xvij li. xij s. iiij d. receptis de ‥ Ricardo [sc. Donne, forestario de Mara] de exit’ ballive sue per manus diversorum hominum diversarum villatarum pro ~o per diversas tallias penes easdem villatas remanentes MinAc 771/23 m. 1 (cf. Ac. Chamb. Chesh. 259); 1401 sibi dedit ‥ pro termino vite sue ~a et consuetudines forestarum nostrarum de Mara et Mondrem Enr. Chester 75 r. 3; 1443 a tempore quo non extat memoria ‥ ~a et consuetudines forestarum nostrarum predictarum [de Mara et Mondrem] ‥ ad usum et proficuum nostrorum et progenitorum nostrorum comitum Cestr’ annuatim levata et collecta fuerunt Pat 456 m. 14.

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