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landserjans

landserjans, ~jantus [ME land + sergaunt, serjant, < OF serjant] , ‘land-sergeant’, officer of the peace (prob. in rural area). Cf. landserviens. a1246 idem P. et heredes sui quieti erunt de multura et de pannagio et de puttura et withnesman ~jandorum et forestariorum meorum Cart. Cockersand 1051; 1298 debet pusturam forestar’ ~gantorum et serviencium regis IPM 83/14 (Cumb.) ; homines ‥ Roberti ‥ debent pascere ad turnum suum unum ~gentem et hominem suum et equum suum ‥, et debent invenire testes predicto ~genti usque ad proximam villam Terr. Fleet 108 (cf. ib. 110: passent unum ~jantem).

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