corrody, corody
(ˈkɒrədɪ)
Forms: 5–6 cor(r)ydie, 5–7 cor(r)odie, -ye, 6 corradye, 7–8 corredy; (5 corride, pl. corodes, -eis, ise, 7 pl. corrodice; 7 colede, 8 colady); 5– corody, 6– corrody.
[ad. med.L. corrōdium, also -rādium, vars. of corrēdium, earlier conrēdium, f. OF. conrei(d, conroi, mod.F. corroi:—Romanic type *conrēdo: see conrey. Among the numerous other med.L. forms were conregium, -ragium, corrogium, conreium, correium, courreium, also correda, corredum. Those in o, a, were perhaps due to Parisian F. conroi, AF. conrai. The primary sense was ‘preparation, outfit’, hence ‘provision’.]
Provision or allowance for maintenance, aliment; pension.
‘Originally the right of free quarters due from the vassal to the lord on his circuit; but later applied esp. to certain contributions of food, provisions, etc., paid annually by religious houses..Sometimes the contribution might be commuted, and then it would be practically undistinguishable from an annuity or pension’ (C. Plummer Fortescue Notes pp. 337–8). Little in use since the Reformation; the legal antiquaries of the 17th c. dealt with it as an obsolete word, and it is now chiefly a historical term, though surviving as the name of some local charities.
| [1292 Britton ii. xi. §15 Et ausi porra disseisine estre fete de conreiz. transl. Disseisin may also be made of corrodies. 1316 Act 9 Edw. II, Stat. i. c. 11 Pro corrodiis pensionibus vel prehendinationibus. 1327 Act 1 Edw. III, Stat. ii. c. 10 Grevez..par grosses empensions, provendes, Eglises, et Corodies.] 1429 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) 80 To John ffelton his hous fre..and corodye in seint katerynes term of his lyfe. c 1470 Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xviii, Than shall men off his howsold be rewarded with corodyes, and haue honeste sustenance in þer olde dayis..Ffor such corodes and pencions were ffirst geven to þe kyng ffor the same entent. 1502 Arnolde Chron. (1811) 182 Discharge of quit clame of any corrydies corride pencion or pencions dysmes, etc. Ibid. 256 Here begynith the Corodise in all the Abbeyes in Englande. c 1533 in Froude Short Stud. (1876) I. 420 The said abbot hath sold corradyes to the damage of the said monastery. a 1555 Gardiner in Parker's Corr. 20 There be small corrodies in Cambridge for cooks decayed. 1616 Bullokar, Corodie, an ancient term. 1628 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Joane Palmer was admitted into St. Johns Hospitall an In Sister..by a Corodie from my L:G: of Cant. 1647 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxvi. 231 The founders and benefactors hereby obtained a right of corody or entertainment at such places in nature of free quarter. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. iii. Lesser Monast. §10 Corrodice, and Pensions to Founders. 1707 in Our Parish Bks. I. 127 For goodman Arnals Colady..{pstlg}o 2s. od. 1765 Blackstone Comm. I. viii. 273 The king is entitled to a corody, as the law calls it, out of every bishoprick. 1794 W. Tindal Hist. Evesham 99 To the office of Dean belongs a corredy of one servant of the cellar. 1810 G. Chalmers Caledonia II. iii. vii. 357 David I. was entitled to a corody from the Monks of Coldingham. 1888 Times 3 Aug. 10/2 The annual party of poor residents of Lambeth and its neighbourhood was given..when the recipients of the Archbishop's weekly dole and corody (between 40 and 50)..spent a happy evening. |
b. transf.
| 1602 Carew Cornwall 35 a, Besides these flooting burgesses of the ocean, there are also certaine flying Citizens of the ayre, which prescribe for a corrodie therein. |
c. corrody house: a house given rent-free along with or as part of a corrody: cf. quot. 1429 above.
| c 1535 Surv. Yorksh. Monast. in Yorkshire Archæol. Jrnl. IX. 215 A litle corrodye house w{supt} a chambre. |