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portmotus, ~um [ME portmot] , court of town or city, portmote. 1155 (1267) precipio ne ullo modo respondeant nisi illorum proprio porti moto CalCh II 68; c1210 concedo quietanciam secte ~i mei et judicis inveniendi ad ~um meum Cestrie Ch. Chester 282; de xxviij s. de amerciamentis portemoti per annum Ac. Beaulieu 85; non est aliqua certa hora in civitate Cestr’ limitata ad presenciam partis ree vel actricis in ~o postquam ad hoc cornu personuerit ballivis pro tribunali sedentibus expectand’ PlRChester 627; 13‥ item Burgensis non veniat nisi ad tres porte[mota] [l. portemotos] per annum, nisi habeat placitum super se, et nisi veniat ad quenquam magnum ~um, erit in misericordia de xij denariis Cust. Preston 497; 1335 de xviij s. receptis de perquisitis portymotorum ibidem [sc. in Burgo de Whitchurche] Comp. Swith. 226; 1376 de portemot’ pede pulverizato, et assisa fracta Ac. Obed. Abingd. 34; 1467 de sectis ‥ hundredorum, ~orum ‥ (Ch.) MonA IV 314a..

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