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manrent Sc. Now Hist.|ˈmænrɛnt|
[Sc. form of manred: see -red.
It is doubtful whether the form goes back to the 14th c., as the MSS. of Barbour were written in 1487–9, and in one passage MS. E has the older form manredyn.]
1. Homage: = manred 1.
1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 303 The kingis..of the Eryschrye..thair manrent [MS. E manredyn] till him can ma. 1457Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 50 At na man duellande wtin burghe be fundyn in manrent. c1470Golagros & Gaw. 1218 Now wil I be obeyand, And make the manrent with hand. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiii. 13 Quhat is thy manrent bot mischeif? 1681Visct. Stair Instit. i. ii. (1693) 19 There was formerly a kind of Bondage in Scotland, called Man-rent, whereby free persons became the Bondmen or Followers of..their Patrons and Defenders.
b. band (or bond) of manrent (see quot. 1597).
1528in St. Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 499 He usit our autorite..aganis our Baronis, and uyer our liegis yat wald nocht entir in band of manrent to him. 1538in Black Bk. Taymouth etc. (Bannatyne Cl.) 181 Mutual Bond of Manrent and help between Johne Campbell of Glenurquhay and Archibald Campbell of Glenlyoune against all men. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Homagium, It is a bande of man⁓rent, quhen ony person promisis to serue ane vther, in sik sorte, that he sall be friend to all his friends, and foe to all his foes, against all deadly. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. V, Wks. (1711) 82 How the great houses of Scotland were so joined and linked together, by kindred, alliances, bonds of service, or man-rent. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. i. (1802) I. 231 Associations, which when made with their equals, were called ‘leagues of mutual defence’; and when with their inferiors, ‘bonds of manrent’. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. ii. 65.
2. = manred 2, 3.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. xiv. vii, Thair hicht and gret pissance, baith in manrent and landis, was sa suspect to the kingis..that [etc.]. 1577–95Descr. Isles Scot. in Skene Celtic Scot. (1880) III. App. 435 McCowle of Lorn hes the stewartship of the haill Ile and manrent thairof. 1583Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. III. 614 Havand commandiment of the manrent of all and sindrie his Hienes lieges. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 126 The greatnesse of his reuenewes and manrents. |