almoign

plural almoigns · alternative obsolete almoin · alternative obsolete almoigne

1. obsoletealms

   What he could not confer in almoign was the military service, due to himself perhaps, but due also to the Crown, through himself, as mediate.

   1881, R. W. Eyton, “The Staffordshire Chartulary”, in Salt Archæological Society, editor, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume II, Birminghan: Houghton and Co., page 185

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   Further, be it known, that king Henry, the son, has covenanted with our lord the king, his father, that he will strictly observe all gifts in almoign which he has given, or shall give, out of his lands, and the gifts of lands which he has given, or shall give, to his liegemen for their services.

   1853, Henry T. Rilley, transl., The Annals of Roger de Hoveden. […], volume I, London: H. G. Bohn, page 387

   The Knight gives in almoign an annual rent of 20 marks to pay a " Chanon singand prayers perpetually " at the Altar of St. Nicholas in the Abbey, wherein he has ordained his burial.

   1886, Joseph Bain, “Notes and Queries”, in Walford D. Selby, editor, The Genealogist, volume III, London: George Bell & Sons, page 189

   At that time the provincial of the order was F. Robert de Kilwardby, who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, and died a cardinal, and he interested himself personally in the new foundation. In 1269 he acquired a messuage from Adam de Doy and Matilda his wife, in almoign, and free of secular service, giving them in exchange a messuage which John de Rames once held, and receiving them and their heirs to all the benefits and prayers that would henceforward accrue in the same house and church of St. Mary.

   1888, C. F. R. Palmer, “The Friar-Preachers, or Blackfriars, of Ipswich”, in J. Charles Cox, editor, The Reliquary, volume I, London: Bemrose and Sons, page 70