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manbote Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈmænbəʊt|
[OE. mannbót, f. mann man n.1 + bót boot n.1]
A fine paid to an overlord for the loss of a man.
a1000Laws of Ine c. 70 æt twyhyndum were mon sceal sellan to monbote xxx. sci{llswing}., æt vi. hyndum lxxx. sci{llswing}, æt twelfhyndum cxx. Ibid. c. 76 Sie sio mæᵹbot and sio manbot ᵹelic. a1201Hoveden Chronica (Rolls) II. 224 Manbote in Denelaga, et de villano et de Scotman, duodecim horas; de liberis autem hominibus tres marcas. 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. Introd. 35 A number of the more important members of the class had evidently been enrolled in the ranks of the feudal nobility and their manbote was ‘reckoned in gold’. |