Also 7 valuasserie, 9 vavassory. [ad. OF. vavas(s)orie, va(u)vasserie, or med.L. vavasoria, f. vavasor: see next.] An estate held by a vavasour.
1611. Cotgr., Vavassorie, a Valuasserie; th’estate, land, or territorie of a Vavassor, Mesne Lord.
1656. Harrington, Oceana (1700), 65. The Middle-Thane … was also call’d a Vavasor, and his Lands a Vavasory. Ibid., 67. It cannot be imagin’d, that the Vavasorys or Freeholds in the People amounted to any considerable proportion.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v., There are base Vavasories, and frank, or noble Vavasories, according as it hath pleas’d the Lord to make his Vavasour.
1839. Stonehouse, Isle of Axholme, 124. He was enfeoffed with the vavasories of Camville and Wyville.
a. 1861. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., III. 405. It is not practicable to ascertain the others who received their rewards by Vavassories or Sub-tenancies.
