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What (who) is Battel - definition

TERM USED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FOR THE BILLS PAID BY STUDENTS FOR FOOD AND ACCOMMODATION
Battels; Batteler; Batler

Battel         
·vi To make fertile.
II. Battel ·adj Fertile; fruitful; productive.
III. Battel ·vi To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
IV. Battel ·noun A single combat; as, trial by battel. ·see Wager of battel, under Wager.
V. Battel ·noun Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them;
- only in the ·pl, except when used adjectively.
Battel         
Battel, or battels, sometimes spelled batells, or batels is a term used in the University of Oxford to refer to food ordered by members of the college as distinct from the usual commons. Hence it also referred to college accounts for board and provisions supplied from kitchen and buttery, and, generally, the whole of a person's college accounts.
battels         
['bat(?)lz]
¦ plural noun (at Oxford University) a college account for food and accommodation expenses.
Origin
C16: perh. from dialect battle 'nourish', 'nutritious'; prob. related to batten2.

Wikipedia

Battel

Battel, or battels, sometimes spelled batells, or batels is a term used in the University of Oxford to refer to food ordered by members of the college as distinct from the usual commons. Hence it also referred to college accounts for board and provisions supplied from kitchen and buttery, and, generally, the whole of a person's college accounts. Though the distinction from commons is no longer relevant, the term persists as the name for members' termly bills at many colleges at the Universities of Oxford and Durham.

Batteler, later a resident in a college, was originally a rank of students between commoners and servitors who, as the name implies, were not supplied with "commons", but only such provisions as they ordered for themselves.

The inventory of Henry Thorlthorpe, a Vicar Choral of the church of Saint Peter in York—the Minster—who died in 1426, includes in the debts he has to pay battels of this sort. When he died in 1426 his probate inventory, in the Borthwick Institute of Historical Records at the University of York as translated by Philip Stell in Probate Inventories of the York Diocese (AY2/3, ISBN 1-874454-37-X), says "for batells that Henry owes to the community of parsons 2 pence".

Examples of use of Battel
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