wara

1 wara [? AS waru] 1 geld, rent, tax levied on assessment (cf. defensio 4); b (libera ~a). c military service (as owed, cf. inwara, utwara), (esp. acra de ~a or sim.) land subject to particular tax or held in exchange for (military) service; cf. inwara, utwara. Eudo noluit dare warras de eadem silva DB I 212rb; reddendo annuatim ‥ j d. nomine ~e infra Natale Carte Nativ. 265.  b reddendo sibi et heredibus suis annuatim j d. de libera ~a Carte Nativ. 234; 13‥ libera ~a est unus redditus et est talis condicionis quod si non solvatur ‥ duplicabitur in crastino et sic in dies Villainage in Eng. 243n. 2.  c c1181 de sexdecim acris terre de ~a hundredi de Ely ‥ et de decem et septem acris terre et dimidia de ~a in hundredo in Hadenham Act. Ep. Ely 114; in Asfeld sunt x acre de ~a quas isti tenent Kal. Samson f. 98; c1186 in Sapestone tenet domina Matilda xxx acras de ~a libere, non dat hidagium Ib. f. 95v; 1219 de xv acris terre cum pertinentiis de warra [v. l. ~a] in Miclefeld' CurR VIII 96; 1224 inquirat ‥ per quantum tempus R. B. junior tenuit terram illam infra werram [LTR Mem 7 m. 1Bd.: in warra] et extra KR Mem 7 m. 11d.; 1277 Samson filius Jordani tenet xij acras terre de ~a, que faciunt unam plenam terram Villainage in Eng. 442; 1358 unum toftum et decem acras ~e terre et dim. acram prati Pat 254 m. 25. 2 unit of land subject to assessment for tax or service (prob. equal to one virgate). hoc manerium ‥ jacuit et jacet in Hiz. sed ~a hujus manerii jacuit in Bedefordscire DB I 132va; c1120 terra warlanda se defendit pro j hida et sunt in ea vj ~e, ex quibus waris tres sunt in dominio ubi possint esse ij aratra; ceteras iij tenent vj villani ad opus, quisque sc. dimidiam ~am, et quisque operatur ij diebus Cart. Burton 22; 1189 (1400) de feudo de Manderill ‥ tres ~as terre apud Reindonan CalPat 375; c1200 concedimus ‥ ~am et dim. cum cotlandis MonA VI 232a; 1227 totum servicium Roberti C. de la Habichyda et de quatuor ~is in villa de Calde Norton ChartR 18 m. 6; 1288 nullam terram clamat tenere nisi antiquam ~am, de qua solvit xl d. per annum CourtR Hales 181; 1298 in Schelton sunt x ~e terre et dimidia que continent xlij bovatas terre et quelibet bovata reddit per annum ix d. IPM 81/6; 1301 dominus concessit Willelmo ate Lowe quartam partem unius virgate terre ‥ ad tenendum inperpetuum pro serviciis quarte parti unius ~e terre pertinentibus CourtR Hales 412.

2 wara [AS waru], article of merchandise, ware. 11‥ si quis gildam non habens aliquam ~am vel corrigia vel aliud hujusmodi taxaverit (Stat. St. Omer) Gild Merch. I 290.

3 wara v. wera

4 wara v. werra