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sergantaria, ~ganteria (serj-) [AN serganterie, serjanterie, ME sergeaunterie], serjeanty, form of feudal land tenure conditional upon the performance of some form of personal service, often military but excluding knight service, which must be rendered in person, most commonly to the king (often w. impl. ref. to the land or duty); b (dist. as parva or magistralis); c (w. spec. service indicated). x servientes qui deserviunt terram per ~gentariam; et si non essent servientes redderent de consuetudine j marcham argenti Chr. Peterb. app. 161; 1180 pro relevio cujusdam ~janterie Pipe 10; 1191 de terris quas clamat pertinere ad ~gantariam suam quam tenet de R. Ib. 109; 1193 G. M. debet xx m. pro habendo recto ‥ de terris quas clamat pertinere ad ~jantariam suam quam tenet de R. Ib. 144; 1205 s'gant'ie et theynnagia et drengacia Cl 55a; 1230 in villa de Maynford que est ~gauntaria Pipe 8; 1234 tenet j vergatam per sargentariam hundredi Cust. Glast. 48; c1265 per servicium militare occasione alicujus ~genterie quam tenet Reg. Glasg. 602; 1315 cum ‥ concesserit Johanni ‥ officium ~jauntarie prepositure Umbrarie Burdeg' RGasc IV 1357; hoc intelligatur de terris in feudis militaribus, vel ~jandrie, seu juris patronatus (Stat. II Rob. I VII 2) RegiamM II f. 39.  b 1199 mag'ram s'gent'aiam de wapetach' RChart 27b; occasione alicujus parve ~genterie quam tenet de nobis per servitium reddendi nobis cultellos Magna Carta 37.  c 1185 dimidia hida terre quam debet tenere de rege per ~janteriam despensarie RDomin 43; 1193 W. de C. r. c. de x m. ‥ de terra sua ‥ que est ~janteria lardarie domini regis Pipe 147; 1198 tenet xl solidatas terre de ~genteria de cuneis in London' et non finivit (Pl. Crown) EHR III 509; 1219 per ~ganteriam custodiendi meretrices sequentes curiam domini regis Fees 253; 1334 officium ~jantrie pacis in isto commoto valet communibus annis lxiiij s. Surv. Denb. 152.

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