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westwa [W. gwestfa; cf. 3 gestum], (W.) form of customary payment (orig. paid by free men for the support of the ruler's feasts), feast-dues, food-rent, ‘gwestfa’, (also) area from which feast-dues were collected. 1275 Kardigan' ‥ sunt ibidem quidam Walens' tenentes duos ~as, qui reddunt per annum ix s. v d. et iiij quarteria avene IMisc 33/31; 1280 concessisse ‥ ~am de L. integram ‥ infra commotum de A. Pat 100 m. 29; c1295 rex habet ibidem quendam redditum qui vocatur westewa qui extenditur ad x l. xiij s. iiij d. IMisc 55/3; c1300 quelibet ~a que solebat pascere dominum cum familia sua quater in anno Tribal System (1904) 116; 1306 de ‥ preposito commoti de K. de quodam annuo redditu dicto redditus de ~a per communitatem ejusdem commoti singulis annis solvendo ad quatuor anni terminos MinAc W. Wales 430; 1309 Luilinus ‥ defunctus tenuit de nobis die quo obiit commotum et dimidium et unam ~am in Cardiganshir' per tenuram Wallensicam Abbr. Orig. I 165; 1316 quod in consuetudine que vocatur westua recipienda ‥ sit in eleccione ballivorum nostrorum vaccam ‥ vel v s. recipere Pat 145 m. 34; 1327 sunt ‥ liberi tenentes qui reddunt per annum de redditu assis' que vocatur ~a xiiij li. ad quatuor anni terminos IPM 5/2 m. 9; 1332 tertiam partem unius westvae in Gwynwill tenuit in feodo Cl 152 m. 17; 1356 [rents and customs called] †wastwa [MS: westwa] Cal. IPM 324.

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