Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old EnglishCategory:English terms borrowed from Old English#HALYWERCFOLKCategory:English learned borrowings from Old English#HALYWERCFOLKCategory:English terms derived from Old English#HALYWERCFOLK hāliġ (“holy”) + weorc (“work”) + folc (“folk”).

Noun

halywercfolk (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#HALYWERCFOLKCategory:English nouns#HALYWERCFOLKCategory:English uncountable nouns#HALYWERCFOLKCategory:English uncountable nouns#HALYWERCFOLKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HALYWERCFOLKCategory:Pages with entries#HALYWERCFOLKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#HALYWERCFOLK

1. (lawCategory:en:Law#HALYWERCFOLK) In Old English law, tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument, whereby they were exempted from feudal and military services.
   • 1874, Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt, Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors, page 429:

     For such persons within the bishopric of Durham as held their lands by the service of defending the corpse of St Cuthbert were called Halywercfolk, and claimed the privilege of not being forced to go out of the bishopric either by the King or Bishop.

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