Note 282 — Chapter IX · The State.
Reading edition
Assize Dav. 26–28. For examples of Manred, Vide Col. de Reb. Alb., passim. The word is often written Man-rent, but the tie had nothing to do with Rent or any species of tenure. The red is simply a termination, as in gossip-red, gemein-red, equivalent to the modern ry in such words as infantry, cavalry.