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tenantry|ˈtɛnəntrɪ|
Forms: 4 Sc. teneindri, 4–6 Sc. ten(n)andry, -endry, 5–6 tenentry, 5– tenantry.
[f. tenant n. + -ry.]
1. The state or condition of being a tenant; occupancy as a tenant; tenancy; tenantship.
1391in Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 43 Murthow..sal indow hir in the barony of the Redehall with the apportenantis in tenandry and in demayn. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Manus, The King may be thereby prejudged in his tenendrie, dewtie and service. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. ciii. 406 To take the foyson Lords haue skill, On Tainters setting Tenentries, oft for Expences ill. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. p. xxi, It was only by the tenantry of the peaceful monks that the land was even tolerably tilled. 1889Cornh. Mag. Dec. 563 The Miss Tremenheeres had almost come to an end of their tenantry at Elm Place.
2. Land held of a superior; land let out to tenants; also, the profits of such land.
1385in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 410/1 Somonde at the chef plaz of the teneindri of Lytilton. 1438St. Andrews Regr. (Bann. Cl.) 430 Ovirmalgask is fundin a tenandry in yhour awyn court of þe fornemmyt lordschip. c1460Oseney Regr. 20 With all churchis and chapells londis rentis tenauntries and tithes possessions and other thynges to þe saide church of seynte George perteynyng. 1584Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 673 Thair saidis tennendreis salbe annext to the Kingis Majesteis propirtie as his propir rent. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Recognition, Lands..annalied, and sauld be them heritably, to be halden of themselues and their aires, ceasis to be propertie to them, and becomes tennendry immediately halden of them and their aires.
†b. The holding of a tenant; a piece of land, a dwelling-house, or the like, held by a tenant under the landlord. Also transf. Obs.
c1450Godstow Regr. 149 To lete to oony man the foresayde tenantry ne no perte of hit with-owte speciall licence of þe foresayde abbesse. 1465Marg. Paston in P. Lett. II. 176 Ther be dyvers of your tenantrys at Mauteby that had gret ned for to be reparyed. 1521MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., The wyndowes of the tenauntry in Doklane. 1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 50 b, Let Christen londlordes be contente with their rent and olde customes not..lettinge ij. or iij. tenauntryes vnto one man. 1547Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 3 §9 Tenauntries cotages or other convenient howses to be lodged in. 1613–14Taxt Roll 20 Jan. in Glasgow Daily Herald (1864) 24 Sept., Cruixsfie propertie and tennandrie, 100 lib.
c. A set of houses owned by tenants collectively.
1905Westm. Gaz. 23 Aug. 8/3 It is here sought to prove as a sound economical principle..the collective ownership of a house with individual responsibility. No one tenant owns any distinct house in any ‘tenantry’, but the profits that accrue from that particular ‘tenantry’, after the deduction of interest on the money, cost of repairs, &c., are shared amongst the tenants.
3. spec. That part of a manor or estate under common or open-field husbandry (Tusser's ‘champion countrie’, Husb. lxiii.) occupied by tenants, as distinct from the lord's demesne (as in Domesday Survey, ‘terra in dominio’ and ‘terra in villenagio’). Hence, locally applied to the condition or system of tenancy under open-field husbandry. See also tenantry acre, field, flock, land, in 5.
1794T. Davis Agric. Wilts. 14 The abolition of common⁓field husbandry (or as it is called in Wiltshire ‘Tenantry’). Ibid., Modern improvements..cannot be adopted to any extent, in lands lying in a state of tenantry. Ibid., Tenantry yard-lands (or customary tenements)..are still subject to the rights of common. 1844Little in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Eng. V. i. 178 Most of these commons are now enclosed;..some still remain in pasture, and the common field husbandry, or ‘tenantry’, as it is called, is abolished.
4. The body of tenants on an estate or estates. (Now the most usual sense.)
1628Wither Brit. Rememb. vii. 752 That they have begger'd halfe their Tenantry. 1781Cowper Hope 252 Kind souls! to teach their tenantry to prize What they themselves, without remorse, despise. 1868Mill Eng. & Irel. 37 Those landlords who are the least useful in Ireland, and on the worst terms with their tenantry. 1875Mrs. Randolph W. Hyacinth I. 46, I shall introduce you to the tenantry as their future mistress.
b. transf. A set of occupants or inhabitants.
1798H. Melville in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 18 The tiny tenantry [of a drop of water] are carrying on their usual concerns. 1880E. Kirke Garfield 44 Under the sway of terrestrial laws, winds blow, waters flow, and all the tenantries of the planet live and move.
5. attrib. and Comb., as, in sense 3, tenantry acre, tenantry down, tenantry field, tenantry flock, tenantry land, tenantry road; tenantry dinner, a dinner given to the tenants on an estate.
1794T. Davis Agric. Wilts. 61 In the common fields..the usual rule is, to allow one thousand sheep to fold what they call a *tenantry acre (about three-fourths of a statute acre) per night.
1903Westm. Gaz. 9 Jan. 7/2 The *tenantry dinner.
1794T. Davis Agric. Wilts. 58 The old custom of the *tenantry fields of Wiltshire was..to give a year's fallow previous to wheat. 1813Ibid. Gloss., Tenantry Fields and Downs, fields and downs in a state of commonage on the ancient feudal system of copyhold tenancy.
1793A. Young Agric. Sussex 69 A *tenantry flock [of sheep] (the joint property of several people) belonging to the parish of Denton.
1853W. D. Cooper Sussex Gloss. 65 note, The proportion between the tenantry and the statute acre is very uncertain. The *tenantry land was divided first into laines, of several acres in extent, with good roads..between them; at right angles with these were formed..*tenantry roads,..dividing the laines into furlongs. |