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extorsive

extorsive [cf. extorquere 2] , extortionately. V. et. extortive. 1304 auctoritate officii sui et ~e levaverunt de hominibus predictarum villarum predictos denarios de tallagio predicto SelCExchPl 219; 1433 terras ‥ que ‥ injuste et ~e seisivit et ‥ in manibus suis extunc tenuit Langley app. 261 (cf. ib. 260: episcopus ~e ‥ compulsit dictos Willelmum et Johannem contra suam voluntatem per duriciam); ipsum W. P‥. imprisonari fecit et ‥ ibidem sic in prisona ‥ quousque finem per ij s. pro deliberacione sua habenda cum prefato C. [ballivo abbatis] fecisset ~e tenuit Entries 11b.

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