单词 | last court |
释义 | > as lemmaslast court 1. A Kentish administrative district: = lathe n.1 Also attributive, as last court (= sense 2).Quot. 1814 draws on quot. 1670 at sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > division containing several hundreds rapeOE lathe?a1100 last1576 a1400 (?1375) W. Thorne Chron. Abbots of St. Augustine's, Canterbury (Corpus Cambr.) f. 52v Hic [sc. Elfredus] constituit Hundred & Lestes. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 144 Of this place, the whole Last of Shipwey, (conteining twelue Hundrethes) at the first tooke, and yet continueth the name. 1814 Encycl. Londinensis XII. 260/2 Last-court,..In the marshes of Kent, a court held by the twenty-four jurats, and summoned by the bailifs; wherein orders are made to lay and levy taxes, impose penalties, &c. for the preservation of the said marshes. 1933 H. M. Cam in J. G. Edwards et al. Hist. Ess. in Honour of J. Tait ii. 24 To this stricter tenurial unity corresponded a more effective administrative unity than that of the Kentish lasts. 1936 M. T. Teichman-Derville Level & Liberty Romney Marsh in County of Kent 22 The name, and perhaps even some relic of its organization, perpetuated in the Lathe or ‘Last’ court of Romney Marsh. 2010 C. Flight Survey of Kent x. 264 By the thirteenth century..Kent was organized into six lests and more than 60 hundreds. < as lemmas |
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