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chapel of ease
History; Medieval

A subsidiary chapel of a mother church founded to ease the difficulties of parishioners in worshipping, especially where the parish was very large.

cabacete
History; Medieval

A tall narrow helmet, with a turned-down brim which was drawn up to a point at front and rear, worn by Spanish infantry in the late fifteenth century.

caltrop
History; Medieval

# A small spiked device, intended to impede horses. # Small metal ball with four (angled) projecting spikes placed on battlefield to maim horses.

bordar
History; Medieval

# Smallholding cottager of lesser standing than villein but better off than cottar. # Usually, in rural contexts, a relatively humble peasant occupying a cottage with little or ...

champerty
History; Medieval

A procedure by which a person having no legal concern in a suit promises aid or influence to one party in return for a share of the matter in the suit, if successful; usually ...

burgonet
History; Medieval

A steel cap with chin-piece; a feature of sixteenth-century armour.

chantry
History; Medieval

# An institution, often endowed by will or supported by subscriptions through a guild, to pay for the regular saying of masses for the souls of the founder(s) and of friends and ...

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