单词 | wardmote |
释义 | wardmoten. A meeting of the citizens of a ward; esp. in the City of London, a meeting of the liverymen of a ward under the presidency of the alderman. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of deliberative or legislative assembly > [noun] > meeting of a town, parish, ward, or county wardmote1377 town meeting1636 parrock1660 parish meeting1665 county meeting1679 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 94 Somme seruen þe kyng and his siluer tellen, In cheker and in chancerye chalengen his dettes Of wardes and wardmotes [v.r. wardemotes] weyues and streyues. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxviiv That euery Aldreman in his warde shulde vpon the Morowe folowynge assemble his Wardemote, and that all those wardemootys shuld assemble in one place. 1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 268 The said crosse hauing beene presented by diuers Iuries (or quests of Wardmote) to stand in the high way to the let of cariages (as they alledged). 1682 London Gaz. No. 1730/3 Sir Thomas Bludworth Alderman for the Ward of Aldersgate, being lately dead, the Wardmoot met this day in order to the supplying the Vacancy. 1758 Payne's Universal Chron. 21–8 Oct. 237/1 Yesterday Mr. Alderman Alsop held a Wardmote at Armourer's-hall, for the election of a Common Council-man for Coleman-street Ward. 1861 Daily Tel. 24 Oct. Yesterday a wardmote was held at the King's Arms Hotel, Newgate St., before Mr. Alderman Phillips, for the election of a representative of the ward in Common Council. 1897 Daily News 22 Dec. 4 The various wards into which the City is divided assembled yesterday in wardmote. Compounds C1. General attributive. wardmote court n. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of a guild or livery company wardmote court1607 hallmotea1633 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Aaaa2v/1 Wardmote, is a court kept in euery ward in London..ordinarily called among them, the Wardmote Court. wardmote man n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of deliberative or legislative assembly > [noun] > meeting of a town, parish, ward, or county > member of wardmote man1598 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 102 This warde [sc. Tower street] hath..Wardmote men thirteene. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 113 [Ealdegate Warde] hath..Wardmote men for inquest eighteene. C2. wardmote horn n. a horn formerly blown before the houses of the members of a wardmote court to call them to a meeting. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > [noun] > one who signals on horn > horn as signal for moot moot-horna1300 wardmote horn1899 1899 A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson II. i. 5 He then drove to the Guildhall [at Canterbury] where he was greeted with loud blasts upon the Wardmote horn. wardmote inquest n. (also wardmote quest) (a) a judicial inquiry made by a wardmote; (b) the body of men composing a wardmote; also attributive, as wardmote inquest man. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > judicial inquiry > by wardmote wardmote inquest?1529 ?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A5v Your grace may se whate a worke there is in London, howe the biβhoppe rageth for endyting of certayn curates of extorcion and incontinency the last yere in the warmoll quest. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 17 §3 To enquire bothe in their Quarter cessions, and all wardemote enquestis to be kept within the Citie of London. 1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Biv Ther is a custome in the Cytye, ones a yeare to haue a quest called the warmal quest, to redresse vyces. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 176 Candlewicke street Warde..hath now..Wardmote inquest men 12. 1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London v. sig. F1 Fooles, In whose Ship whilest they all are sayling, let vs obserue what other abuses the Verdimotes Inquest doe present on the lande, albeit they bee neuer reformed, till a second Chaos is to bee refined. a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady i. ii. 28 in Wks. (1640) III For of the Ward-mote Quest, he better can, The mysterie, then the Levitick Law. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1377 |
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