haspa

haspa, ~us [ME haspe < AS hœpsa] , hasp (for securing door, window, or sim.); b (as token of seisin); c (naut.); d (for book). e (part of plough harness). 1192 pro seris et ~is ‥ ad ostia domorum Pipe 301; 1211 in ~is, stapellis ob; in serrura empta ij d. Pipe Wint. 6; 1277 (v. 1 gumphus 2); 1286 in ferro empto ‥ ad vertevell’, guncios, clavos, ~as, in ‥ hapsis et stapulas ad hostia castri KR Ac 460/27 A(3); 1295 ad clavos, ~as, et alia ‥ fabricanda ad hostia et fenestras ‥ molendini Ib. 462/14 m. 2; 1305 pro staplis et hespis pro ostio ‥ prisone Ib. 486/17 sched. 2; 1307 (v. 2 crocus 1g); 1318 in j serura cum j pyn de ferro et cum ~o ad eandem Rec. Leic. I 323; 1334 in ij stapulis cum hapsis ‥ pro eadem [sc. porta] ij d. KR Ac 497/29 m. 3; 1365 in hespis, stapelis, et j serura emptis pro ceppis DL MinAc 242/3888 m. 2; aspa, A. an haspe ‥ hec ~a, a hespe WW.  b nota quod solempnitas et simulata donatio in comitatu per fustum et bastonem et per hostium et ~am non valet sine seisina continua BNB III 638 in marg.; fieri debet traditio per ostium et per ~am vel per anulum Bracton 40; ubi seisina facta fuit donatario per senescallum ‥ per fustum et per baculum, vel per ~am Ib. 398; 1305 [put into seisin] per ~am hostii domus (JustIt) Collect. Staffs VII 128.  c 1294 apsis KR Ac 5/2 m. 2 (v. castellum 4); 1296 in lx ~is ad hurdeciam galee Ac. Galley Newcastle 183.  d 1237 in fermaculis, hapsis, et clavis argenteis ad magnum librum Romanic’ nostri Liberate 11 m. 3.  e 1308 in cappis, auriculis, et haps’ ferreis pro carucis faciendis Ac. Man. Wint. (Wroughton) (cf. ib.: 1311 in capp, auricul’, hamis et happ’ ferreis pro lann’ carucarum emendandis); 1310 in ij ~is faciendis ad caruc’, cum ferro ad eosdem empto, iij d. Ac. Man. Westm. (Pershore) 22096.