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ˈunderˌsettle Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 3 -setle, 5 Sc. undirsettill, -sedell, wndersedyll, 6 Sc. vndersittell.
[f. under-1 6 a + -settle, -setle, repr. OE. -setla (see cotsetla), f. set-, root of sit v.]
One who occupies a house (or part of one) held by another; a subtenant.
1235–52Rentalia Glaston. (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 108 Si famulus vel famula vel undersetles venerint, quisque dabit ob. per diem. 1326in Court Baron (Selden Soc.) 146 [Strangers coming from without, who hire houses from divers persons and hold nothing of the lord,..called] Undersettles. 1476Peebles Burgh Rec. (1872) 178 Grantand to..George Robyson fwll power to mak rasonabyll tenandis and wnder⁓sedyllis. 1480Exchequer Rolls Scotl. IX. 30 De dicto loco de Farnele de anno elapso pro uno undirsettill,..xx s. 1510in C. Rogers Coldstream Chartul. (1879) 58 With power to mak subtenentis and vndersittellis. 1607N. Riding Rec. (1884) I. 95 Leon. Marshall of Ravensworth [presented] for keeping an undersettle for the space of a moneth. 1612Ibid. 266 John Herdman..for keeping an undersettle in the house wherein one Will. Dynnis now dwelleth. 1781–Parish Terriers, Welton (Yks.), For every messuage or cottage.. six pence and for every under-settle three pence.
So ˈunderˌsettler; ˈunderˌsettling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1576E. Worsely's MS. Surv. Mannor of Felsted, Essex 47 It was granted to one John Lord..by vertue of a coppy of undersetling made thereof to the said John. Ibid. 147 Every tenant customary commonly called an Undersetling tenant. 1794W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumbld. I. 163 note, The tenants are subject to pains..for taking in inmates or undersettlers. |