franchisedadj.

?a1417 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 221 (MED) It is ordaynd..that no fraunchised man kytte no fysshe at the commune shamels.

1455 in J. Nicholl Some Acct. Company of Ironmongers (1851) 26 (MED) The honurable Crafte and felasship of the ffraunchised men of Iremongers of the citie of London.

1520 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 26 Eny Fraunchesid man sworn unto the fraunches.

1558 in Reg. Guild Corpus Christi York (1872) 220 (note) The mayour's kid-cot, where unto franchised men are used to be commytted for their offens.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 116 The community, composed of all the franchised citizens.

1875 Bucks County (Pa.) Gaz. 16 Sept. He claimed that as franchised citizens the temperance people would not support and sustain the administration of one who had signed the bill that had taken away their votes.

1930 Eng. Hist. Rev. 45 537 The privilege of general exemption from tolls was not confined to the gildsmen. At Southampton..where there was a class of franchised men who were outside the gild, this privilege belonged to ‘the men of Southampton’, without mention of the gild.

1995 Speculum 70 427 Shaw's study focuses largely on this Borough Community of franchised citizens, who he estimates represented around 11 percent of the total population in the late fourteenth century and as many as half of all adult males.

1576 R. Robinson tr. F. Patrizi Moral Methode Ciuile Policie iv. f. 34 Those franchised bondmen (who although freed) yet after fredome, do owe some seruice vnto vs: wherfore we must accoumpt theim as Iournymen or laborers hyred, and we must in al thinges vse them as freemen with curtesye.

1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 257 The one was but a franchised slave, and the other a common Player.

1727 tr. Plutarch Lives V. 274 Pompey's Self-denial never appeared in a stronger Light, than in his Deportment towards the Wife of Demetrius, his franchised Servant, who had a great Influence upon him in his Life-time.

1753 L. M. tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman II. 114 Anicetus. [Note] His [sc. Nero's] franchis'd slave.

1839 H. F. Gould Poems III. 94 My merriest notes shall there be heard, To draw her eye to her franchised bird; The burden, then, of my song shall be, ‘Earth for the wingless! but air for me!’

1877 T. Cooper Paradise of Martyrs i. xxxiv, in Poet. Wks. 305 Still sweeter grew the sounds, and fairer bloomed The flowers, till rapt thoughts strengthened that I trode No earthly soil, but precincts to bliss-doomed Celestial realms, where vigour is bestowed On franchised souls to fit them for their load Of bliss.

1905 W. Campbell Poems 170 He sleeps to-day unshackled, franchised, free, To wander where she wills him.

1425 Rolls of Parl. V. 289/2 Governours of any fraunchised Toune next adjoynyng.

1451 J. Gloys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 65 It was a fraunchised town.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 43 There hath beene a Franchisid Toune, now clene decayith.

1585 A. Golding tr. P. Mela Worke of Cosmographer ii. iv. 51 From Po to Ancona ward, the waye lyes by Rauenna..the fraunchised Towne of Fane, and the Riuers Metaurus and Esis.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 215 Seised of lands in Gavelkind, as in Kent, and in other places franchised.

1704 Exact Abridgm. All Statutes 276 All Cities, Boroughs..Franchised Towns shall enjoy all their Franchises, Customs..Usages, as they ought and were wont to do.

1776 F. Fowke tr. Cato in tr. Phædrus Fables p. xxi Thus principled he has voted that their estates be confiscated, that themselves in franchised towns under guards be had.

1892 Polit. Sci. Q. 7 667 The..county coroners..could enter franchised places from which the sheriff was ordinarily excluded.

1938 R. A. Dixon & E. K. Eberhart Econ. & Cultural Change vii. 341 These franchised towns raised their own militia, composed of freemen who were favorable to the law and order of the king and antagonistic to the feudal nobility.

1997 Gesta 36 169/1 A rebellion that might well have succeeded in establishing a franchised town with some degree of autonomy from its bishop.

1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 36 Preamb. Sir Edward kepith hym in such hidelles and other places fraunchesed.

1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke iii. viii. 74 b Moses..did institute thre franchised tounes.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. 917 In this temple and sacred grove about it, so religious, so priviledged and secured (as are those franchised houses and sanctuaries which the Greekes call Asyla)..souldiours wandered at their leisure and pleasure.