† yeresyeve Obs.
Forms: 2 ȝieresȝieve, 3 jherscheve, jaresive, 3–4 ȝeres-, yeresȝyve, -ȝiue, -ȝeue, -yeve, 5 ȝereseffe.
[f. yeres, gen. of year n. + ȝive, ȝeue give n.1]
A gift customarily given or exacted at the New Year, or at the beginning of a year of office.
| 1194 Charter Rich. I in Rymer Fœdera (1816) I. 52/2 Concessimus, quod sint quieti de bridtol, & de childwite, & de ȝieresȝieve. 1201 Charter Cambr. in Rot. Chart. (1837) 83/2 Quod omnes burgenses de Cantebruge sint quieti de jherscheve et de scothale. 1231 in Cal. Charter Rolls (1903) I. 130 [20 s. which were paid yearly to the constable of Bristoll from the land of Mangodesfeld by way of] jaresive. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 34 Wolde neuer kyng ne kniht ne Canoun of Seynt poules Ȝeuen hem to heore ȝeres-ȝiue þe value of a grote! 1377 Ibid. B. iii. 99 Hem þat desireth Ȝiftes or ȝeresȝyues [MS. R. (14..) ȝereȝiftes] bi-cause of here offices. Ibid. viii. 52 He ȝaf þe to ȝeresȝyue to ȝeme wel þi-selue. c 1460 Promp. Parv. 548 (Winch.), Ȝereseffe, encennium. [1723 Bohun Priv. Lond. (ed. 3) 35 Jeresgive, is a Toll or Fine, taken by the King's Officers, on a Person's entring into an Office; or rather, a..Bribe, given to them to connive at Extortion, or other Offence in him that gives it.] |