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noun
Tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument and were therefore exempt from feudal and military duties; specifically, the caretakers of the body of St Cuthbert.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Qualifier: medieval English law
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History
See halywercfolk.
