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A common name for members of the Benedictine Order derived from the color of the habits.
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A vassal who holds directly from the crown and serves as a member of the king's great council. It is not, of itself, a title, but rather a description of the Tenants in Chief class of nobility.
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# An outwork or forward extension of a castle gateway.
# Outerwork of a castle, providing additional defence for the gatehouse. Also used to describe the strategy developed by the English in the late fourteenth century.
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Part of the king's household and responsible for writing his writs and other instruments of government.
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Cusps springing from the chamfered side or edge of an arched head (not the soffit, for which see soffit cusp.
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A clerk who was not a monk but who lived in a community governed by a rule and belonged to one of the religious orders of canon regulars.
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# An eighth of a carucate. Sometimes reckoned at 15 acres; land ploughed by two oxen.
# An ox-gang, or as much land as an ox could plough in a year; varying in amount from 10 to 18 acres according to the system of tillage.
# A measurement of land. One eighth of a carucate; notionally as much land as could be kept under plough by one ox. Also known as an oxgang or oxgate of land.
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