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ˈfræŋkˌplɛdʒfrankpledge

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  1. frankpledgenoun

    A legal system, based on tithings, in Anglo-Saxon England, in which members were held responsible for each other's conduct

  2. frankpledgenoun

    A member of such a tithing

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Frankpledgenoun

    A pledge or surety for freemen. For the ancient custom of England, for the preservation of the publick peace, was that every freeborn man at fourteen years of age, religious persons, clerks, knights and their eldest sons excepted, should find security for his fidelity to the king, or else be kept in prison: whence it became customary for a certain number of neighbours to be bound for one another, to see each man of their pledge forthcoming at all times, or to answer the transgression of any one absenting himself. This was called frankpledge, and the circuit thereof was called decenna, because it commonly consisted of ten housholds; and every particular person, thus mutually bound, was called decennier. This custom was so strictly observed, that the sheriffs, in every county, did from time to time take the oaths of young ones as they grew to the age of fourteen years, and see that they combined in one dozen or other: whereupon this branch of the sheriff’s authority was called visus franciplegii, view of frankpledge. John Cowell

    Etymology: franciplegium, Latin, of franc, i. e. liber & pleige, i. e. fidei jussor.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Frankpledgenoun

    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

  2. Frankpledgenoun

    the tithing itself

  3. Etymology: [Frank free + pledge.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of frankpledge in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of frankpledge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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