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Englishry|ˈɪŋglɪʃrɪ|
Forms: 5 Englisherie, 7 englechery, -esherie, Englichiré, -ishiré, -ishrye, 8 Englecerie, -eschiré, -escyre, -icherie, 7– Englishry.
[ad. AFr. englecherie, f. englesche, ad. ME. englisch, English; see -ry.]
1. a. The fact of being an Englishman. Chiefly in legal phrase Presentment of Englishry: the offering of proof that a slain person was an Englishman, in order to escape the fine levied (under the Norman kings) upon the hundred or township for the murder of a ‘Frenchman’ or Norman.
Bracton, followed by the legal antiquaries of the 17th c., represents this as the continuation of a similar practice under the Danish kings; but no evidence to that effect seems to be known.
[c1292Britton I. vii. (1865) 38 Et volums qe nul murdre soit ajugie par la ou acun parent al mort peuse estre trové, qi peuse monstrer qe il fust Engleys, et issi presenter de ly Englescherie.] 1620J. Wilkinson Treat. Coroners & Sherifes 8 By a statute made 14 E. 3. c. 4 the presentment of Englechery was wholly abrogated and annulled. 1649Selden Laws Eng. i. xl. (1739) 62 This custom lasted long after the Normans time, the Dane being only changed into the Norman, and was called Englishire. 1741T. Robinson Gavelkind ii. ix. 275 Before the Presentment of Engleschire was taken. 1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 280 Unless proof of ‘Englishry’ were made by the four nearest relatives of the deceased. 1883Freeman Impress. U.S. iv. 16 All accepted the statement of what I may call their Englishry.
b. = Englishness, Englishism.
1894Westm. Gaz. 21 Sept. 2/1 Our Englishry is often a shallow veneer. Scratch the Teuton, and you find an O'Shaughnessy. 1924Year's Work in Eng. Stud. 1923 37 Related..is the fable of the decline and fall of English philology since the mid-nineteenth century, and its loss of Englishry and of appeal to the English. 1940E. C. Bentley Those Days i. 3 Palmerston's death brought out in Brooks the essential Englishry of that time. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Sept. 543/3 The high romance, the doggedness, the talent for nonsense that are still, to the connoisseur of Englishry, staples of life in this drab, unhygienic island.
2. a. That part of the population, esp. in Ireland, that is of English descent. Obs. exc. Hist.
c1470Harding Chron. ccxxxi. iv, Loue of all the land He [the duke of York] had amonge the Englisherie alwaye. 1600J. Dymmok Ireland (1843) 6 Such good lawes as tende to the preservation of the Englishrye. 1792Burke Let. Sir H. Langrishe Wks. 1842 I. 552 The popery laws..as applied between Englishry and Irishry. 1876Green Short Hist. vii. §8 (1882) 434 The..English law..made treasonable any marriage of the Englishry with persons of Irish blood.
b. An English population; English people generally. In a town: An English quarter. rare.
1867Howells Ital. Journ. 165 There was, beside numerous Englishry in detached bodies, a troop of Germans. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 3) I. v. 310 There was an English and a Welsh town, an Englishry and a Welshry. a1910‘Mark Twain’ Autobiogr. (1924) I. 120 The Norman Conqueror came over to divert the Englishry. |