1 gen 1674 anni - amercement

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In the manorial system this was a payment imposed on an offender by his peers, after which he stood at the mercy of the lord: it differed from a fine in that it was imposed at the discretion of the court (TWH26/7n). 1250 ‘the said lady’s steward and reeves held courts … and received amercements from many people’, Stokesley (YRS12/26); 1674 <i>the estreates of all such fines ... and amerciamentes forfeited at the Court Leet</i>, Elmswell (DW227). It was occasionally abbreviated: 1582 <i>two others for a mercyant 4d each</i>, Beverley (YRS84/26).

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