Bisceop-wíte
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - bisceop-wíte
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- bisceop-wíte
- n. Substitute: A fine payable to a bishop (cf. e.g. Ll. Th. i. 262, § 3: 474, § 17) :-- Ðæt ðe scýrbiscop ... hádinge ne dó on ðis abbotríce, búton seó abbod hit him bydde, ne biscopwíte episcopus dioceseos ... non ordinationem ... sine abbatis fauore arroget, ... neque ... in omni priuilegio ipsius juris quicquam praeter abbatis assensum accipiat vel faciat, C. D.