Obs. [a. OF. charche:—Romanic type carca: see CARK and CHARGE.] Charge.
1426. Audelay, Poems, 43. Thai … That have the charche of ȝoure soule in here kepyng.
1534. Hen. VIII., Liber Regis (1786), p. v. Suche as shall have charche … to survey the same.
