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Cellar

History; Medieval

Room, often for storage, on ground floor or partly underground. Basement.

Burgess

History; Medieval

# The holder of land or house within a borough. # Member of a borough community, sharing in its communal privileges. # The member of a town (borough) community, generally a householder paying his ...

Champart

History; Medieval

Levy of 4th, 9th or 12th sheaf of the harvest.

Chamber

History; Medieval

Part of the king's household which dealt with his expenditure.

Canon (new testament)

History; Medieval

The list of books accepted by the church as scripture; the accepted list of twenty-seven items in the New Testament was worked out between the second and the fourth centuries.

Borough

History; Medieval

# A town with the right of self government granted by royal charter. # Originally a defended farm or residence but usually used in the meaning current from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, ...

Baronage

History; Medieval

The leading members of the landed elite, above the bannerets. The title of baron carried no specific duties or rights, though most were treated as peers.