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hamfara

hamfara [AS hamfaru] , (fine for) breach of peace in house. a1066 Normannorum marchio ‥ dedit ‥ consuetudines quas habebat in ‥ [Wascolio], sc. hainfaram, ullac, rat, incendium, bernagium [etc.] (Ch.) EHR XXIII 504; rex ‥ habebat in suo dominio iij forisfacturas, hoc est pacem suam infractam et heinfaram et forestellum (Heref) DB I 179ra; si quis occidit hominem regis et facit heinfaram, dat regi xx s. de solutione hominis et de forisfactura c s. DB I 179rb; 1130 vicecomes r. c. de xxxv m. argenti pro quadam heimfara in soca de Biham Pipe 112; hamsocna est vel hamfare, si quis premeditate ad domum eat ‥ et ibi eum [i. e. hostem] invadet (Leg. Hen. 80. 11a) GAS 597; 1279 quod ‥ sit ‥ quietus ‥ de ‥ forstall’, †hamstar’ [etc.] PQW 344a; 1330 de grithbreche, forstall, haymsoken, haymfar’ [etc.] Ib. 640b; haimfar’ Ib. 641a.

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