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firsa

firsa, ~us [ME firse, furse < AS fyrs] , furze, gorse. a1175 exinde in longum de Blaccumbe usque ad fursam et de dicta fursa usque ad tres colles CalPat 1377 – 81 116; 1235 de vj d. de Walt’ pro fursis Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/16 r.1; 1274 Henrico Longo preposito castri in ~is falcandis et bruer’ ij s. iiij d. (IoW) MinAc 984/4; 1431 cum omnibus ~is sub predicto monte AncD A 9852 (cf. CatAncD IV 470: ‘frisses’); 1448 semper ‥ Johannes C. cum ‥ magno cane suo ipsum ‥ insecutus fuit quousque ‥ Willelmus pervenit ad quoddam trench’ de fyrseo in villa predicta [Wighton, Norf] Pat 466 m. 18.

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