pitanceria

pitanceria [OF pitancerie] 1 pittancery, office of a religious house responsible for receiving, distributing, and accounting for pittances; the estates and resources belonging to or administered by that office; b (w. ref. to physical structure). ~ie, et ceteris omnibus obedientiariis, decimam et redditus contulit Abbat. Abingd. 293; c1207 statuimus ‥ quicquid fiat de ~ia nostra vel festivitatibus similibus ‥ ne aliquid de predictis quatuor festivitatibus minuatur Ch. Westm. 345 (= Flete Westm. 99); ut abstinenciam faceremus de pitantiis nostris saltem uno anno, et ad frontem feretri reparandam de puro auro redditus de ~ia apponeremus Brakelond f. 153; 1279 E. P. et Marg’ uxor ejus tenent de episcopo Eliensi ‥ unum dim’ feodum militis pro homagio et scutagio quando ev[en]erit, et preterea †perencera [l. pitancerie] de Ely vj buss’ frumenti per annum Hund. II 442a (cf. ib. 485a: reddendo per annum ‥ ~ie de Ely); 1361 ecclesiam S. Nicholai fregerunt, alii ‥ in manerio de la B. ignem apposuerunt; et sic per ecclesiam ‥ et per ~iam ministri diaboli undique sunt ingressi (Chr. Abingd.) EHR XXVI 732; 1441 de iiij s. de iiij ulmis parvis in ~ia venditis Ac. Obed. Abingd. 119. b uxores eorum [sc. Judeorum] cum pueris suis in ~ia nostra tempore werre hospitabantur Brakelond f. 123v.. 2 donation made to a religious house for the purpose of providing pittances or doles to members of the house, pittance. 1485 pro quo quidem corodio dicti W. et D. solvent prefatis priori et conventui centum marcas legalis monete Anglie et in quadam petansaria vj li. AncD B 1498.

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