infranchisement

plural infranchisements

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of enfranchisement.

   VVhence it follovvs that the amplitude and infranchiſement of humane reaſon cannot be ſaid properly to be impair'd by theſe limits and regulations.

   1653 (indicated as 1654), Walter Montagu, “The First Treatise. Whether any Inquisition into Divine Mysteries be Allowable. Sect[ion] III. How Far Our Inquisitiveness may Pass into the Reason of Gods Civil Providence.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies: The Second Part, London: […] John Crook, Gabriel Bedell, and Partners; […], →OCLC, page 19

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   [M]y ſelfe and them / Bend their beſt ſtyudies, heartily requeſt / Th’infranchiſement of Arthur, vvhoſe reſtraint / Doth moue the murmuring lips of diſcontent / To breake into this dangerous argument.

   c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 15, column 1

   Manumiſſion is properly vvhen the Lord makes a deed to his villeine to enfranchiſe him by this vvord (Manumittere) vvhich is the ſame as to put him out of the hands and povver of another. […] [E]uery manner of infranchiſement made to a villein, may bee ſaid to be a Manumiſſion.

   1628, Edw[ard] Coke, “Of Villenage”, in The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers, →OCLC, book 2, chapter 11, section 204, folios 137, recto – 137, verso