单词 | first-fruits book |
释义 | > as lemmasfirst-fruits book first-fruits book n. (also first-fruit book) now historical a record of first-fruits (sense 3). ΚΠ 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 15 Such Benefices as..are aboue twenty pounds value in the first Fruits Bookes. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 190 That there were in England foure thousand five hundred Benefices with Cure, not above ten, and most of them under eight pounds in the first fruits-book. 1816 W. S. Mason Statist. Acct. Ireland II. 86 The following list, extracted from the First Fruits' Books, contains the names of the incumbents of this parish. 1840 Courier 14 May The defendant showed, from ‘First Fruits’ books and other public records, uniform collation by his predecessors for 200 years. 1922 T. Venn Alumni Cantabrigienses: Abbas-Cutts I. p. xiii We have therefore had to take the more laborious course of consulting the various County Histories, and, where these failed, consulting the First-Fruit books at the Record Office. 1974 J. M. Horn in J. Le Neve Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 3 5 These sources, together with..subscription books, first-fruit books and letters, have made reasonably complete lists of office-holders. < as lemmas |
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