pridare

pridare [prida+CL -are; cf. MW prid(i)aw, appridare] , (in quot. as p. ppl., of land) transferred (into possession of creditor) by ‘prid’ or by a contract of ‘prid’ (v. prida; in both quots. the lands in question are in the testamentarily transferable, and potentially perpetual, possession of the persons specified (‘meas’ and ‘Gruffut ap Avon’, respectively), so that pridatus might be translated in these quots. as ‘(originally) acquired or taken possession of by means of a contract of ‘prid‘. The Welsh verb prid(i)aw can also mean ‘~to mortgage, pledge (as security against a loan, etc.)’, a usage reflected in the foll. quot., where Rhys is pledging his burgage as security against a loan of three pounds he is to receive, while still however remaining in residence on the burgage: 1457 Res Salmon has prydyt and set to pryde his burgage (Bull. Board Celt. Stud. XXVII 277; cf. et. quot. 1457 s. v. prida 1g)). c1361 item lego omnes terras meas pridas [? l. ad pridas, pridatas] predicto B. filio meo Arch. J. XXII 271; a1441 memoranda de terris ~atis per Gruffut ap Avon in villa de Penniarth Ib. VI 394.

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