starrum

1 starrum [Heb. sh'tār = a writing], Jewish deed or bond, esp. one of release or acquittance of debt. b (in non-Jewish context) deed, contract, certificate. 1208 ad faciendum inde ~um quietancie eidem Henr' Cl 113a; 1234 donec fecit ei estarum suum de debito illo CurR XV 1117; 1235 facient habere dicto Roberto estarrum de acquietancia Judeorum AncD D 220; 1272 Abraham ‥ exigit a predicto priore ‥ xij l. et lucrum, per quoddam ~um cirographum in archa cirographorum Londonie factum SelPlJews 65; 1274 cepit rex a Judeis universis totam partem omnium mobilium suorum, credendo eis per ~ios suos Leg. Ant. Lond. 19; 1282 stara ad scaccarium Judeorum apud Salopiam Law Merch. III 1; in hujus rei testimonium presens ~um litera mea ebraica signavi Starrs I 80.  b 1283 consuetudines nativorum ‥ in operibus expend' pro diversis cariagiis factis ‥ in festo Epiph', dxlvj op[era] per unum ~um MinAc 997/4; 1301 de lxxiiij quarteriis frumenti venditis ad opus comitis per v starr' Ib. 991/25; c1330 in fine ‥ visus dicti compoti fiat starum per modum dividende in quo ponentur omnia remanencia in communi cista tam pignora quam pecunia ac eciam arreragia et debita StatCantab 319.

2 starrum [ME starle, starre < ON störr], sedge or reed grass, often used as thatch, bent-grass. 1308 computat in xxvij perticatis fossati mar' contra Humbr' de novo faciendis cum viij s. de v mill' garb' ~i emptis ad idem MinAc 1079/18 m. 12; 1316 inveniet ‥ j tignum longitudinis ix pedum ad bercariam domini et xxv garbas de ~o vel arundine ad cooperturam ejusdem Terr. Fleet 13; 1338 inveniet ‥ xxv garbas starr' vel arundin' ad cooperturam ejusdem [sc. bercarie] Cl 161 m. 12.