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frankpledge

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Definitions

  1. A form of collective suretyship and punishment under English law among the members of a tithing.

Word origin

From Anglo-Latin franciplegium, a Latinization of Anglo-Norman frauncplege ("free pledge"), a mistranslation of Old English friðborh ("pledge of peace"), which had the corrupted form friborh, which led to the Modern English term friborg, as if it were *freoborh ("free pledge"). See also friborg, which refers to the predecessor of frankpledge.

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  • The servants of the Crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other.
  • Entire vills sir Henry Spelman conjectures to have consisted of ten freemen, or frank-pledges.

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