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† rod-knight Obs.
[Later form of OE. rádcniht.]
= rad-knight.
c1280Bracton ii. xxxv. §6 Ut si quis debeat equitare cum domino suo de manerio in manerium, & tales dicuntur Rodknights. c1290Fleta iii. xiv. §7 Per servitium equitandi mecum, vel cum uxore mea, qui Rodknyghts vocabantur. [1614Selden Titles Honor 334 Our old word Rodknights (that is, Riding Knights, or Knight-riders). 1617Minsheu Ductor 422 Rodknights, or Radknights, are certaine seruitours, which hold their lands by seruing their Lord on horsebacke. 1682Warburton Hist. Guernsey (1822) 69 Bracton calls such tenants as held by the service of riding with the lords from one manor to another, Rod Knights. 1778Pennant Tour Wales (1883) I. 56 This last [the Radman] seems to have been the same with the Rod or Rad-knights. ] |