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Frankpledge   Listen
noun
Frankpledge  n.  (O. Eng. Law)
(a)
A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.
(b)
The tithing itself. "The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other."






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