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- Before 1066, a superior court was introduced above the fiefs and below the Eschequier Court in Rouen and comprised the bailiff and four knights; the court heard...
- The chekker (or archiquier, eschequier, scaquer, scacarum, Schachtbret) is a European early musical instrument of the Middle Ages, first do****ented in...
- before the Kinges Auditors and suche Chambreleyn or Baron of the said Eschequier as shalbe thereunto appoynted by our said Soverayne Lorde the Kynge in...
- chauvinism cheat, Old Fr. escheat check, Old Fr. eschec checker, Old Fr. eschequier checkmate, Old Fr. eschec mat, from Persian shah mat, compare modern Fr...
- India: a large whip. Check (and Cheque) check (cheque) (n.) from O.Fr. eschequier "a check at chess," from eschec, from V.L. *scaccus, from shah "king,"...
- in 911AD, established a superior court in Rouen, which had the name of Eschequier or Exchequer, to which appeals could be made. Each Fief, or manorial land...