BATTEL, or BATTELS (of uncertain origin, possibly connected with " battle," a nogthern English word meaning to feed, or " batten ")
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BATTEL, or BATTELS (of uncertain origin, possibly connected with " battle," a nogthern English word meaning to feed, or " batten ") , a word used at Oxford See Also: - OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE
VERE , 17TH EARL - OXFORD,
JOHN DE VERE , 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513) - OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
University for the food ordered by members of the college as distinct from the usual
commons "; and hence college accounts for board and provisions supplied from kitchen and buttery , and, generally, the whole of a man's college accounts. " Batteler," now 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.
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