| 单词 | process of green wax |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprocess (also amerciament, issue) of green wax 1. A document or estreat giving notice of a fine, amercement, etc., delivered by the Exchequer and bearing a green wax seal; such documents regarded collectively; (in extended use) the office issuing them. Also in process (also amerciament, issue) of green wax. Cf. green cloth n. Now historical.The office of Surveyor of Green Wax continued to exist nominally in the Exchequer Office until the early part of the 19th cent., but without substantive functions. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > documentary evidence > types of green waxa1350 estreatc1440 streatc1440 right1478 affidavit1515 constat1570 exhibit1702 davy1764 society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > seal > official or sovereign green waxa1350 secret seal1378 privy seal1410 signet1410 Great Seal1419 private seal1440 common seal1449 cocket1451 privy signet1477 half-seal1509 targec1510 broad seal1550 a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 8 Ȝet comeþ budeles wiþ ful muche bost: ‘greyþe me seluer to þe grene wax; þou art writen y my writ.’ 1377–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 586 In soluc. facta vicecomiti Northumbr. pro le Grenwax, 13s. 4d. 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 378 (MED) It ys agrede and accorded..that euery Bailly for the yere yelde accomptes of the yssues, fines, amerciaments of Grenewax in the kynges courte forfet by eny citezen..to the comyn chamberleyns. c1500 God spede Plough (Lansd.) l. 69 in W. W. Skeat Pierce Ploughman's Crede (1873) 71 Then commeth the grenewex which greveth vs sore, With ronnyng in reragis it doth vs sorowe Inough. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xv. f. 28 The whiche afterwarde is estreyted agayne, and sende downe to the shiryffes of euery countie..and it is called grene waxe. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1241/1 Hugh Pateshull, treasuror of the excheker, which was treasuror of the greenewax, or of the seale. 1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 487 Of Sherifes and greene waxe. 1618 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) II. 61 Sir Thomas Edmondes is in concert with the duke, to farm the green wax, as they call it, or the seal of the exchequer. 1668 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 76 A processe of green wax issued to the Sheriff of Sligo for £300 arreares of rent to his Majestie. 1716 N. Covert & W. Bohun Scrivener's Guide (ed. 3) II. 457 Also all Fines, Issues, Amerciaments, Post-Fines, and Issues, commonly called Issues of Green-wax. 1848 F. S. Thomas Anc. Exchequer Eng. 119 The Revenue of Greenwax, under his superintendence, was divided into two parts. 1976 Hist. Jrnl. 19 333 The Post Fines were part of the Greenwax in its wider sense. They were granted to Lord Knollys (later earl of Banbury) in 1608. 1994 Albion 26 429 Christopher Vernon, the king's First Secondary of the Pipe Officer and Surveyor of the Greenwax, was a noted specialist in obtaining favorable grants of concealed lands. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。