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frithstool
[ frith-stool ]
noun
- (in Anglo-Saxon England) a seat in a church, placed near the altar, for persons who claimed the right of sanctuary.
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Origin of frithstool1
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There was a frithstool endowed with similar privileges at York Minster, and another at Durham.
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A few years later Hexham was made a See, and the "Frithstool" still remains from the time when its cathedral received the right of sanctuary.
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