maletentn.

1297 Act 25 Edw. I c. 7 in W. Stubbs Select Charters (1895) 495 E pur ceo qe tut le plus de la communaute del roiaume se sentent durement grevez de la male toute des leines, cest asavoir de chescun sak de leine quarante soudz.]

1543 tr. Act 25 Edw. I c. 7 The commonalitie of the realme fynd them selues sore greued with the maletent of wolles.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Maletent, in the Statute called the Confirmation of the Liberties of, &c. An. 29. Ed. I. ca. 7. is interpreted to be a Toll of forty shillings for every sack of wooll. Stow in his Annals p. 461. calls it a Maletot (from the French maletoste or Maletote). [Hence in 1658 Phillips, 1673 Coles, 1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (nouv. ed.) ii, 1835 T. E. Tomlins Law Dict. (ed. 4), 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon, 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law.]