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essartatio

essartatio , ‘assart’, clearance (usu. to produce arable). a1195 quod ‥ monachi hanc villam ‥ teneant ‥ salva foresta nostra, quantum ad feras et sartationem, ultra quod predictum est Feod. Durh. 182n; c1200 quod ‥ monachi habebunt ‥ communitatem in illa medietate bosci quam ‥ S. essartare debet, et antequam essartatus [sic] fuerit ‥ et post ~onem quando bladum in eadem non fuerit Couch. Kirkstall 182; 1221 de ~one facienda: sciatis quod licenciam dedimus Thome C‥. assartare et excolere tres acras de riffletto in Cumb’ Cl 453a; 1304 pro assartacione interioris ballii castri predicti de quibusdam arboribus et spinis in eo crescentibus ‥ ij s. viij d. KR Ac 486/15 m. 2; 1392 de ‥ assartacione (v. approuatio).

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