ˈwarland Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 3 warlond, 4 warelond, 5 warlant, -londe, 5, 9 Hist. warland, 7, 9 wareland.
[f. OE. waru defence (see ware n.2) + land n.1: in AL. terra de wara.]
Agricultural land held by a villein.
See Vinogradoff Eng. Soc. in Eleventh Cent. (1908).
| c 1158 Oseney Latin Register (Ch. Ch. MS.) fol. 17 Unam hidam terre cum quatuor hominibus de warland. 1290 Inq. Post Mortem. C. Edw. I File 56 (18) (P.R.O.) Le warlond ejusdem manerii [sc. Norcliffe co. Chester] tenetur pascere servientes domine regine de Maklesfeld de mense in mensem quolibet mense per unum diem. 1331 [see thigging]. 1456–7 MS. Bursar's Bk. of Fountains 58 In xiiij acr. et ij Rod. de Warland—ix s. viij d. c 1460 Oseney Reg. 30 Þere also j. hide of londe with iiij. men of Warlande [tr. quot. c 1158 above]..; In Weston iij. ȝerdes of londe of Warlant. Ibid. 31, j. ȝerde of londe of þe lordship and another of Warlonde. 1811 Extract Court Rolls Great Oakley, Essex, [Francis Fisher a tenant of the Manor is described as holding 5 acres of] Wareland. |
¶ Erroneously explained.
| 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 137/2 Wareland, is as much Land as containeth three Lands. [See land n.1 7, loon n.3] 1691 Blount Law Dict., Warland, The same with Warectum. |