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hallmote, halmote|ˈhɔːlməʊt|
Forms: 2–5 halimot, 4 (7–8 Hist.) halymote, Hist. 6 haylemot, 6–9 halimote, heal-gemot, 7–9 halmot, 8 hallimote, 8–9 hal(l)mote, 9 hallmoot.
[Early ME. hal-imot, -ymote, repr. an OE. * heall-ᵹemót, f. heall hall1 + ᵹemót meeting, assembly.]
1. The court of the lord of a manor, held in the hall; a court-baron.
1101Laws Hen. I, c. 9 §4 in Thorpe Anc. Laws I. 517 Et omnis causa terminetur vel hundreto, vel comitatu, vel halimoto socam habencium, vel dominorum curiis. Ibid. c. 20 §1. 528 In causis omnibus et hallemotis pertinentibus. c1205Lay. 31997 Hu Aðelstan her com..hu he sette halimot, & hu he sette hundred. 1591Lambarde Archeion (1635) 15 The Court Baron, anciently called Heal-gemot, and corruptly Haylemot, that is..the Court of the Hall, Mannor, or chiefe place. 1607Cowell Interpr., Halymote is a court Baron..the etymologie is the meeting of the tenents of one hall or maner. 1846Brockett's N.C. Gloss. (ed. 3) I. 206 Halmot-court..The name is still kept up in Durham county, in the bishop's manors. 1892Garnier Hist. Eng. Landed Int. 63 Private courts, such as those of the King's Thane and Halmote.
fig.a1327Pol. Songs (Camden) 154 Upo lofte The devel may sitte softe, And holden his halymotes ofte.
2. The court of an incorporated trade-guild or ‘company’.
a1633Coke Inst. iv. (1669) l. §9 The Court of Hall-mote. This is..as much as to say the Hall Court, i. Conventus Civium in Aulam publicam, every Company of London having an Hall wherein they keep their Courts, and this Court anciently called Hall-mote or Folk mote. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. iii. x. (1743) 209 The court of Halmote, or Assembly of every Guild or Fraternity. 1892Hazlitt Livery Comp. Lond. 104 In 30 Edward I the Bakers were allowed to hold four hall-moots yearly, to determine all offences committed in their business.
¶ It has been erroneously analysed as ‘holy or ecclesiastical court’.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. ii. §22 All these appeared at the Hali-mote or Holy Court of the Cellarer. 1670Blount Law Dict., Halimote..also a Holy or Ecclesiastical Court. 1797Jacob's Law Dict. s.v. Halymote, Called the holymote or holy-court, Curia Sanctimotus, for regulating the bakers of the city. |