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Definition of Affeering
1. affeer [v] - See also: affeer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affeering
Literary usage of Affeering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1901)
"... shall be two chosen in the same way, and these six shall be well charged by
oath to loyally assess each man at his affeering according to his estate, ..."
2. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice (Potter) Webb (1908)
"... in its successive stages of presentment, amercement, affeering, and distraining
for small fines was cumbrous and often ineffective ; and the absence of ..."
3. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1900)
"... for their affeering, he shall pay 6s. 8d. In 1371 (p. 41) a gallon of beer
was to be sold for l^d., and no more, while malt was between 5s. and 6s. ..."
4. Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn by Henry Thomas Riley, John Carpenter, London Guildhall, Great Britain Public Record Office, British Library (1859)
"... fine for selling a false torch (or spurious candle) ; pillory for affeering,
or fraudulently raising the price of, corn ; pillory for selling oats, ..."
5. The Scottish Historical Review by Company of Scottish History (1907)
"The precise nature of the intended tax is discussed, but the clause on the '
affeering,' according to their estate, of the labourers, artificers, servants, ..."
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