Middle English Dictionary Entry
patent(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | patent(e n.(1) |
| Etymology | From adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A document which grants an office, a right, title, property, etc.; (b) bi ~, by the authority of such a document; kinges ~, ~ of the king, ~ roial, royal charter; ~ of reste, an exemption from service; (c) a document granting permission to do something, a license; (d) a papal indulgence, pardon.
Associated quotations
a
- (1399) RParl.3.452a : All the Patentes and Charters that they or any of hem hath, of thes Names, Castels, Maners, Lordesships, and Possessions, Fraunchies, and Libertees be ȝolden uppe into the Chauncellerie.
- (1410) Case King Council in Seld.Soc.3593 : Literarum patencium domini Regis..respondet sic, Sires, I made no pursuite for that patente.
- (?c1410) Hoccl.Chancellor (Hnt HM 111)5 : My lord the Chanceller..I..Byseche..þat my patente bere may witnesse That myne arrerages been granted me.
- (1413-19) Doc.in Bk.Lond.E.227/70 : The same Maner of Banstede..he hath for terme of lyf of the yeft of the kyng..as it schewith by his patentes þer-of to hym y-grauntyd.
- (1417-20) Will in Bk.Lond.E.221/29 : He will that the money þe qwiche is resseyued of his patent in Oxenford Shir be kepid to-gider.
- (1429) in Heath Grocers60 : For ye seale of owre greate patente..Alsoe for ye drawinge of ye saide patente and costys.
- (c1430) Let.Christ Ch.in Camd.n.s.199 : The patent..ye have founde ondyr the kyngys sel.
- ?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)53 : He toke his purpos vtterly to revokyn his patent off his homage by attourne, other off his ffyne makyng by generale attornes.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)386 : Patent [vr. patent of] þe kyngys seele: Patens.
- (a1446) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1p.lvii : To the kyng owr souereyng lord, Beseches mekle your pouer prest..to gete a new patent.
- (1448) Doc.in Sundby Dial.Wor.(Eg Charter 608)255 : The kyng..shal graunte..the foreseid xxij li. vn to the seid Thomas and John..prouidet alweys that this surrendur and newe patent be haid wytheinne towe yere next aftur the dat of theis endenture.
- (1449) RParl.5.154a : William Gerveis, by the coloure of a patente terme of lyfe, cleping hymself the Kyngs Corser, rideth and gothe to divers Abbayes, Priories, Denys..and divers other placis..and taketh suche as ben nothing mete to the Kyngs use, unto grete harme and damage of all the Kyngs people.
- (1449) Will York in Sur.Soc.30147 : Also I will yat the servantts yat I have feed by my lettres patents, that they have yt still lik as ye patents make mencon.
- (1450) Paston2.38 : As for the Duche on this side Trent, Ser Thomas Tudenham had a ioynte patent with the Duke of Suffolk.
- (1450) RParl.5.189a : The seide Petition..shall not extende ner be prejudiciall to John Viscount Beaumont..ner to the heires males of either of hir bodies begoten, in their Patentes of their creation.
- (1465) Acc.Howard in RC 57298 : Item, my mastyr paid the next day affter Seynt Peters day, ffor the sele of the new patentt, viij li. ix s.
- (1473) RParl.6.98a : This Acte..extend not..to..any Assignement..by us made unto the same John Wode by patent, taill, or otherwise.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)24306 : I haue doon my besy peyne to brynge the patentes tweyne.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)566 : The chaunceler answeres..For his wardrop and wages also And asseles patentis mony and mo.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)120 : And yff it happen that any patent be made of any parte thereof to oþer vse, þat thanne þat patent be voide, and of non effect.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Benedictus DDS (LdMisc 683)53 : God to wives hath yove gret suffraunce..God and nature hath yove hem a patent Of tonge and mouth to haue ther lyberte.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.OFools (LdMisc 683)8 : The ordre of foolis..Neuly professed encreseth the kovent..Echon registred, be greet avysement; Endosed ther patent, that they shal neuer the.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)494 : I wold nat yeue ii pesecoddys For graunt of your patent of offyce ner of fee.
- a1600(1472) Rec.Bluemantle (Jul C.6)388 : Ye Kinge..creat hym Erle of Wynchester; Mr.Willm.Atclif, ye kinges secretory, red openly his patent yt all folke might hear yt.
b
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.315 : Iustice he was ful often in assise By patente and by pleyn commissioun.
- (1392) Procl.Rich.II in Powell Rising20 : Thar be no man..be vertue of any patente of the Kyng..to take any costume, panage or toll of the tenaunts of the Dukes of Lancastre.
- (1423) RParl.4.256a : Al the Officers made by his patentes roialx..be charged and sworen.
- (1437) Proc.Privy C.5.9 : Þe Cardinal..to departe oute of England to þe courte for to doo his duetee, considered þat he hath the Kinges patent of reste.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)4789 : Ye graunten by your patente to your seruauntes a yeerly guerdoun.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)761 : The grete Trybune is mad by Themperour, And by patent.
- a1525(?1429) Cov.Leet Bk.119 : Al-maner men of this Cite..may bere pay to the murage for ther godes as oder men don for her lond, as hit is graunted be the kynges patent.
c
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.337 : My bulles shewe I alle and some; Oure lige lordes seel on my patente, That shewe I first my body to warente.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)14.191 : Ac þe perchemyn of þis patent of pouerte be moste, And of pure pacience and parfit bileue.
d
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)8.178 : Þeiȝ þou be founde in þe fraternite among þe foure ordris, And haue indulgence doublefold, but dowel þe helpe, I ne wolde ȝiue for þi patent on pye hele.