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?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 239 For freres of þe croice, & monk & chanoun, Haf drawen in ovoice his feez to þer almoyn.

1470 in J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II (1832) II. 502/1 [He] gave and granted in free almons all the said close.

c1550 J. Balfour Practicks 28 (Jam.) Gif the defender hald the land in name of fre almons.

c1550 J. Balfour Practicks 241 (Jam.) Landis gevin to thame in name of fre almonis.

1641 Termes de la Ley 33 Allmone or Tenure in aumone, is tenure by divine service.

1685 R. Brady Compl. Hist. Eng. 165 Tenures were by Homage, by Parage, by Bourgage, by Almoign, [etc.].

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 11 Frank-Almoigne is the same which we in Latin call Libera Eleemosyna or Free Alms in English: whence that Tenure is commonly known by the name of a Tenure in Aumone or Frank-Almoigne.

1735 E. Cleaveland Geneal. Hist. Family of Courtenay i. iii. 134 They gave, in Free-Almoigne for ever, many Lands and Possessions, reserving nothing to themselves.

1833 J. H. Wiffen Hist. Mem. House of Russell I. iii. 98 To ascertain whether these lands..were her right and inheritance by descent, or whether she held them in almoigne, by the above-named tenure.

1900 Trans. Lancs. & Cheshire Antiquarian Soc. (1901) 18 109 Aldcliffe and Newton..were given in almoign to St. Martin of Sees in 1094.

1908 J. C. Cox Cathedral Church & See of Essex 9 [He] had obtained possession of 30 acres, which had been held in almoin by a priest in King Edward's time.

1909 T. Gray Buried City of Kenfig vi. 136 The Abbot of Margam gives to the King 100 marks and two good horses for the land of the Welshmen in the territory of Kenefeg in free almoign.

1988 R. Van Caenegem in Cambr. Hist. Medieval Polit. Thought (1991) ix. 206 All land—whether knight's fee, Church almoign or peasant holding—was held from someone higher up the tenurial ladder.