prida

prida [MW prid] 1 pledge, security, gage, (also perh.) thing given or lent in exchange for pledge or security, (procedure of) pledging or securing. b (spec.) ‘prid’, method of transferring land, etc., in medieval Wales, where land passed into possession of a creditor as a gage or security for a sum of money lent, for a term of years renewable (potentially in perpetuum) unless the loan was repaid at the end of a specified term or renewal thereof (v. Bull. Board Celt. Stud. XXVII 263–77, where ‘prid’ is dist. from, while being seen as a potential prototype of, so-called ‘Welsh mortgage’ although in theory a loan transaction, a ‘prid’ contract could serve as a de facto sale of land in evasion of a social and legal system that discouraged alienation of landed property without the extended kindred group, and land held by ‘prid’ was inheritable and testamentarily transferable just like other land in an individual’s possession; (in quot. 1457 1g infra) the debtor remains in residence on his mortgaged property and pays to his creditor an annual fee that is not counted against the principal of the loan, becoming a rent-paying tenant of a property that he still technically owns). c (de, in, or sub ~a, also in phr. terra ad ~am or terrae ad ~as (cf. 2 infra), of land, held or possessed) by ‘prid’ or by means of a contract of ‘prid’. d (demittere ad ~am or sim., of debtor) to surrender possession of (land, etc.) under terms of a ‘prid’ contract, to mortgage. e (dare in ~a, of debtor, app.) to acknowledge a lien to the value of (a sum of money) upon a specified piece of property (w. super & acc.). f (solvere in ~a, of creditor) to advance (a sum of money) as loan secured by specified piece of property (w. super & acc.; in quot. creditor is advancing an additional sum of money against a property already taken possession of under a previous ‘prid’ contract). g (sum of money lent, loan under terms of a ‘prid’ contract). de tunc et pryt non participant cum rege mayr et kymellaur Leg. Wall. A 120 (= Ib. B 253, Ib. D 347); quicumque alicui dederit pryth [vv. ll. prych; yn prid, i. in pignus], et ante mane non interrogaverit, non habebit responsum usque ad annum et diem unum. si tunc interrogaverit et non invenerit, licitum est ei namium capere Ib. E499. b in forma ~e secundum consuetudinem North Wallie Board Celt. Stud. XXVII 266. c 1361 habet ‥ terras ad ~as, viz. unum tenementum ad ~am a M. ap D. G. sub [‥] li., et ‥ tenementum M. I. sub ij li. Arch. J. XXII 271; c1408 omnes alias terras que fuerunt dicti Willym ‥ tam de hereditate quam de ~a ‥, et medietatem terrarum que fuerunt Jeuan ap Howell ‥ in ~a infra commotum de T. (Anglesey) AncD A 13604; 1464 unam placiam ‥ existentem in manum [sic] prefati Ll. ap Jeuan sub ~a de prefato Viviano (Merioneths) AncD C 3487. d 1289 quod ego ‥ impignoravi, invadiavi, et ad tyr prid dimisi et concessi D. filio G. ‥ medietatem totius juris et clamii que habui ‥ in villis E. et M. B. ‥ ad terminum c annorum ‥ pro quadraginta libris quas idem D. mihi ad plenum solvit pre manibus. et idem D. et sui respondebunt ‥ de redditibus et serviciis ad eadem tenementa pertinentibus. ‥ si idem D. vel sui agravantur in aliqua solucione vel demanda, hoc computabitur in prid. finito ‥ termino licitum sit ‥ antedicta tenementa pro prid antedicto acquietare, alioquin ‥ semper remanebunt penes antedictum vel suos heredes quousque acquietata fuerint Board Celt. Stud. XXVII 270; 1447 ad ~am demissimus Meredith Vaghan ‥ tria tenementa nostra ‥ pro sex libris ‥ de prida nobis per prefatum M. V. premanibus persolutis (Merioneths) AncD C 3449; 1453 predictus Vivianus tradidit et ad ~am demisit prefato Ll. unam placeam suam ‥ infra villam de Bala pro quatuor li. habendam ‥ a festo omnium sanctorum ultimo preterito usque festum omnium sanctorum ex tunc proximo sequens (Ib.) Ib. C 3427. e 1441 dedit Hoell ap J. v. xxxiij s. iiij d. in ~a super tenementum vocatum Tydyn Bach ‥ liberandum ad festum Michaelis ad terminum iiij annorum, et sic de iiij annis in iiij annos, †quos que predicti [sic; l. quousque predict’] xxxiij s. iiij d. ad Rys persolvat Arch. J. VI 394. f 1462 Ll. ap Jeuan solvit infrascripto Viviano viginti sol’ in ~a super placiam infrascriptam (Merioneth) AncD C 3427d. (cf. ib. (v. 1d supra): 1453; CatAncD III 366: [adds] ‘beyond the 4 pounds within named’). g 1289 hoc computabitur in prid. ‥ pro prid antedicto acquietare (v. 1d supra); 1447 pro sex libris ‥ de ~a nobis ‥ persolutis (v. 1d supra); c1453 [memorandum that Vivian (grants to) Llewelyn that he shall have the premises till the feast of the apostles Philip (and James) after the payment of the said loan] ~am (AncD C 3427) CatAncD III 366; 1457 quod ego ‥ dedi ‥ et ‥ impignoravi ‥ burgagium meum ‥ pro tribus libris michi ‥ per predictum W. B. ‥ persolutis. ‥ et sic quod ego ‥ vel assignati mei solvamus ‥ annualem redditum ‥ predicto W. B. ‥ annuatim ‥ cum predicta summa de ~a predicta de lx s. Board Celt. Stud. XXVII 276. 2 (in appos. or as quasi-adj., perh. representing MW tir prid, in phr. terra ~a) land transferred (in quot. into possession of creditor) by ‘prid’ or by a contract of ‘prid’, or ? f. l. c1361 terras meas ~as [? l. ad ~as, pridatas] (v. pridare).

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