Welshry

plural Welshries · alternative Welshery

1. historicalIn medieval Britain, the part of a lordship or other domain inhabited by Welsh people following their own customs.

   In the Welshries the freemen continued, throughout the Middle Ages, both their forms of tenure and farming, but paid the tribute of cattle, or sheep, or honey, or oats to the Norman lord who had displaced their Welsh chief.

   1973, Glanville R. J. Jones, “Field Systems of South Wales”, in A. R. H. Baker, R. A. Butlin, editors, Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles, →ISBN, page 483