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intendence arch.|ɪnˈtɛndəns| [f. intend v.: see -ence.] The paying of attention, attendance; spec. writ of intendence and respondence, in 13–15th c., a writ under the Great Seal in favour of one who received an appointment from the King, ordering all persons concerned to be intendentes et respondentes to him, i.e. to attend and respond to his requests. Also called by Sir T. D. Hardy (Rot. Litt. Pat. 1835 Introd. 6) writ de intendendo; the English formula occurs in 1448 (Willis & Clark Arch. Hist. Camb. I. 399) as ‘to be attending, helping, and councelling’. See also intentive a. 1 quot. 1835.
1687–8in Sarum Church-w. Acc. (ed. Swayne, 1896) 348 W. Surman labour and intendence upon plummer, carpenters. 1881F. S. Haydon in Cal. Pat. Rolls 1 Edw. I, in 42nd Rep. D.K.R. 610 Mandate of intendence and respondence addressed to the sheriffs of Oxford [etc.] and to the bailiffs in the cities and burghs..in favour of Roger de Wanton and John de Swineford..to hold pleas of the market [etc.]. 1895Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. 217 Edward I. addressed writs of intendence and respondence in his favour. |