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chevantia

chevantia [OF chevance] , ‘chevance’, loan. Cf. chevisantia. 1338 pro dampnis que sustinuit pro diversis ~iis denariorum per ipsum factis eidem regi ‥ per manus proprias AcWardr (TRBk 203) p. 203; 1340 deferenti litteras domini regis directas de Deest usque Bruges pro ~ia ibidem facienda de vij millibus florenorum ad opus domini regis Ib. 229; 1345 cum ‥ assumpserit et proviserit facere nobis quandam ~iam de quadam magna pecunie summa pro expedicione quorundam arduorum negociorum nostrorum Cl 178 m. 16; 1346 eo quod per ~ias inde faciendas circiter medietatem ‥ perderemus Reg. Heref. 295; 1348 pro diversis chiva[n]ciis et mutuis denariorum ‥ domino regi per ipsos factis (LTR Mem) CalExch I 163; 1376 pro quibus x li. ‥ occasione ~ie et mutui predictorum obligati fuerunt prefato W. in xxiiij li. viz. in duplo quasi cujusdam clari debiti xij librarum MGL I 396; 1384 nec scit nec potest se auxiliare per ~iam seu alio modo ad solvendam firmam predictam tam cito Pat 318 m. 32; 1385 quod idem prioratus pene destructus et possessiones sue ad plurimos terminos pro plurimis ~iis alienate existunt (Pat) MonA III 408; 1426 commissio domini regis pro mutuo sive chevansia habenda pecuniaria Reg. Heref. 95.

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