portmanni-mote

Updated: August 15, 2026

Each of the four wards of York had its common pasture; Oxford has still its own "Port-meadow." The inner rule of the borough lay as in the townships about it in the hands of its own freemen, gathered in "borough-moot" or "portmanni-mote."

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume I : Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216