hæritage

plural hæritages

1. archaicuncountableusuallyArchaic spelling of heritage.

   Mairouer that in the same hæritage, Ilke hes rychteouslie from age to age succeidet till vther, that worthilie thay may be called perpetual heires.

   1596, James Dalrymple, Bishop John Leslie’s The Historie of Scotland, volume 1, page 17; first printed by the Scottish Text Society in 1888–1895; another reprint

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   […] of the majoʳ part of the house therevpon, concluding, determining, & declaring that declension from the primitive foundation worke, innovation in doctrine & worship, opinion & practise, & invasion of the rights, libertjes, & priuiledges of churches ; an vsurpation of a lordly & prælatticall power ouer Gods hæritage, a subvertion of gospell order & all this wᵗʰ a dangerous tendencie to the vtter devastation of these churches, turning the pleasant gardens of Christ into a wildernesse, & the inevitable & total extirpation of the principles & pillars of the congregationall way ; that these are the leven, the corrupting gangreens, the infecting spreading plague, the provoaking images of jealousy set vp before the Lord, the accursed thing wᶜʰ hath provoked divine […]

   ∼1600–1775, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, printed by order of the legislature, volume 4, part 2, page 490 (AMS Press: 1968)