Fore-spræc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-spæc, e;

fore-spræc

f. [ = for, spræc a speech] A speaking for, a defence, an assenting, agreement; defensio, excūsātio, astipŭlātio :-- Ic secge ðæt sió forespræc ne dýge, náuðer ne ðam scyldigan, ne ðam ðe him foreþingaþ I say that the defence does no good, neither to the guilty, nor to him who pleads for him, Bt. 38, 7; Fox 210, 6. fore-spræc