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ˈsubˌvassal Chiefly Sc. Obs. exc. Hist.
[sub- 9 (b).]
An under-vassal; a vassal of a vassal.
1480Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 52/1 His landes of Wyndale quhilk he haldes of þe lard of Ȝestre in preiudice and skath of þe said Richart his subvassale & tennand. 1565Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 358 Gif he be Erle, Lord, Barroun, frehaldar, wassale, subwassall, fewar, or heritour. 1606Acts Parl. Scot., Jas. VI (1816) IV. 287/1 Act anent setting of fewis be subvassellis of waird landis. 1681Stair Inst. Law Scot. i. xiii. 236 Charters granted by his [sc. the king's] Vassals to their Sub-vassals. 1750Carte Hist. Eng. II. 290 The subvassals were..subject, in cases of rebellion, to the same forfeitures and penalties, as the immediate vassal. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 88 B, the subvassal, has thus two superiors; A, from whom he derives his right..and the Crown, which is his mediate superior. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iii. vi. (1872) I. 251 They shall be Subvassals under us as Hereditary Duke. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th Cent. I. ii. 171 The great charter compelled the barons to grant their subvassals mitigations of feudal burdens.
Hence ˈsubˌvassalage, the condition of being a subvassal; a property held by a subvassal.
1775L. Shaw Hist. Moray ii. 123 On the West side of the river..is Coulclachie, a subvassalage of Angus MacIntosh. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 88 This would be to deprive A of his subvassalage, which no act of the Crown or of B can accomplish. |