| 单词 | lathe court |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslathe court lathe court n. in later use historical (in Kent and Sussex) the judicial and administrative assembly of a lathe or rape (rape n.1). ΚΠ 1575 Deposition in C. J. Dawson Hist. Hastings Castle (1909) I. 356 He..knew the Lathe Courte for the Rape of Hastinge kepte wythin the walles of the said Castell..by the space of twentye yeres paste, and oftentymes since. 1756 R. Burn Justice of Peace (ed. 2) II. 128 These courts..have descended unto us without variation, under the name of the leet, læth, or lathe courts. 1881 E. Wren Intermediate Educ. Hist. Eng. I. 138 Some shires had divisions called lathes..; for them, as for thrythings, special courts were held, called lathe-courts. 1937 J. E. A. Jolliffe Constit. Hist. Medieval Eng. ii. 122 In East Sussex..the rape absorbed the hundreds, and did their work in its three-weekly lathe court. 2000 N. Brooks Anglo-Saxon Myths iii. 54 Whether we may suppose that some form of lathe or lathe court already existed [in Kent] in Æthelberht's day. < as lemmas |
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