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constablia

constablia [cf.OF conestablie; cf. constabularia] , a area of authority of a constable. b group of (10) knights performing castleward. c constable’s room (in castle). a c1180 nisi feceris, custos conestabilie de Sautewude [Saltwood castle, Kent] faciat fieri Royal Writs 505.  b solebant singuli milites de iiij ~iliis dare xxviij d. quando intrabant ad wardas faciendas et j d. marescaldo qui illos denarios colligebat; et ideo xxviij d. et non amplius dabant, quia x milites de quinta ~ilia solebant adjuvare ceteros xl Brakelond 139v (cf. ib. p. 153); 1254 (v. 1 constabularia 2).  c 1255 ad quandam garderobam in ~lia Turris nostre Lond’ Liberate 32 m. 17.

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