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Definition of Essoiners
1. essoiner [n] - See also: essoiner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Essoiners
Literary usage of Essoiners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Britton: An English Translation and Notes by Francis Morgan Nichols (1901)
"But inasmuch as this would be oppressive if it were done with the essoiners of
poor people, it is permitted, out of favour to such persons, ..."
2. The Mirrour of Justices: Written Originally in the Old French, Long Before by Andrew Horne, William Hughes, Anthony Fitzherbert (1903)
"All may be essoiners whom the law forbiddeth not; it is forbidden to women, to
infants, to villains and to all who are in custody; to madmen, ..."
3. England Under the Angevin Kings by Norgate, Kate (1887)
"When that day came the primate was too ill to move ; he sent essoiners to excuse
his absence in legal form, and also a written protest against the removal ..."
4. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1895)
"... to madmen, to excommunicates, to natural fools, to those who are judges or
parties in the cause, to essoiners who on some former occasion have failed to ..."
5. Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London by John Carpenter, Henry Thomas Riley (1861)
"... of the Sheriffs of the City H 286 Ordinance that no Sheriff shall have more
than eight Serjeants I 32 Fol. 278 n. Of Attorneys, essoiners, and Counters. ..."
6. The Records of the Borough of Northampton by Northampton (England) (1898)
"... ORDINANCE MADE CONCERNING essoiners IN THE TIME OF JOHN ... probably a Latinised
form of "essoiners"; or persons who excused themselves from attending ..."
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