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Definition of Excheats
1. excheat [n] - See also: excheat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excheats
Literary usage of Excheats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... least given him nomine decima, beside whatsoever over-sum of the liquor did
accrue to him by leases and other excheats whereof also I have seen mention. ..."
2. Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed ; with Introductions by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Harrison (1910)
"... at the least given him nomine decimal, beside whatsoever over-sum of the liquor
did accrue to him by leases and other excheats whereof also I have seen ..."
3. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life of the Martyrologist, and by John Foxe, George Townsend (1843)
"1357) about a double matter ; whereof the one was concerning confession and other
excheats which the friars encroached in parish churches, ..."
4. Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Harrison, John Bourchier Berners, George Campbell Macaulay (1910)
"... him by leases and other excheats whereof also I have seen mention. Wherefore our
soil is not to be blamed, as though our nights were so exceeding short ..."
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