1185 in H. E. Salter (1929) I. 82 Hec concordia fuit facta in portmannimot in Oxeneford.
1277 in 8th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 1 (1881) App. 409/1 in (C. 3040) LV. 1 Les delays de la curt de portemannemot de Leycestre.
a1300 (c1200) 101 Et curia celerarii ueniret ad portmannemot.
1330 ( (P.R.O.: C 53/117) m. 23 Homines suos liberos & quietos de..portmannesmot & Tuncipesmot.
1388 (P.R.O.: C 145/238/1A) Firma tolnet. fori & Nundinarum cum proficuis Curie de Portmannesmot.
1398 (P.R.O.: C 145/270/11) m. 6 Perquisit. Curie & Portmanmote.
c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss (1873) II. 21 The grete plees of the same toun that ben Portmannysmotes [a1350 BL Add. 25012 portmanemotes] shuld bene pleted at alle dayes a fore the ballives of the toun.
a1525 322 Ric. Hykman, deyster, stode condempned a-fore the Mair and shirrefs of this Cite in the Court of portmanmote.
1706 (new ed.) Portmannimote, (in ancient Deeds) the Portmote or Port-men's Court, held in any City, Town, or Community.
1881 App. i. 409/1 The long-lost Charter of Edmund (Crouchback) Earl of Leicester: reforming the laws and processes of the Leicester portmanemote, and confirming all the franchises of the burgh, not affected by the charter.
1948 D. Knowles xxii. 264 The alderman was opposite number to the bailiff; the presence of both was necessary at the portmanmote and market court.
1962 W. O. Hassall 52 The Abbot ordered that twenty shillings should be given to the Cellarer every year at the next portmanmoot before August, this sum to be paid through the town reeve by burgesses.
1997 D. Nicholas vii. 237 In the fourteenth century the guild became more powerful, assuming control of city finance, while the portmanmoot declined into a court for minor actions.