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sueta

1 sueta v. suata
2 sueta [AN suaté, sueté < CL suavitas], (leg., usu. ~a prisone or sim.) ‘suit of prison’, (right to) fee paid by prisoners for the relaxation of the rigours of imprisonment or paid for freedom from imprisonment or distraint before trial by persons ordered to be attached (cf. suavitas 6). 1323 de suett' prisonum nichil respondet hoc anno, eo quod R. T. habuit custodiam prisonum (MinAc) EHR LXXVI 634; 1338 cum custodia prisonum in gaola infra dictum castrum et infra libertatem de Egremound captorum et capiendorum et ibidem ad custodiend' liberandorum cum proficuo scilicet ~e prisonum in eodem castro existencium in dictis prisonis capiend' Cl 161 m. 11; 1346 quod nullus in ‥ comitatu nostro captus pro transgressione decetero quicquam solvat pro ~a prisone habenda, set statim per sufficientem manucapcionem dimittatur absque aliquo ea de causa solvendo (ChartR) EHR LXXVI 634; 1370 concessimus ‥ officium constabularie castri de Knaresburgh' ‥ percipiendo decem libras pro feodo ‥ de exitibus honoris ‥ una cum proficuis de ~o et manucapcione prisonum in prisona nostra infra castrum predictum (Pat) Ib..

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