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susanus

susanus [AN suseyne, susein; cf. CL sursum], higher (esp. of two), upper. b (of land) that lies above marsh level, upland. 12‥ consuetudines curie ~e de Plumstede Reg. S. Aug. 313; ~e dicuntur partes corporis superiores, jusane inferiores Alph. 180.  b 1206 tam in marisco quam in terra ~a (Lesnes, Kent) RChart 164a; in marisco et terris susseinis (Barling, Essex) Hist. S. Paul. 302n; 1222 parvus mariscus ‥ cum susenna pastura (Tillingham, Essex) Dom. S. Paul. 64; c1230 [six acres of land of which one is] suserna [with a barn on it] Doc. Robertsbr. 87; 1296 in parochia de W. jacent iiij acre terre susanne (Pevensey, Sussex) IMisc 56 (21); in novo marisco ‥. in veteri marisco ‥. in ~is terris Reg. S. Aug. 307.

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