fiars or fiars prices
prices of grain which were fixed for each county by its sheriff and a jury of locals every February; a ‘fiar’ could also be someone who held lands in which someone else possessed a liferent.
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prices of grain which were fixed for each county by its sheriff and a jury of locals every February; a ‘fiar’ could also be someone who held lands in which someone else possessed a liferent.