cotsett

[ML. cotsetus, coth set us, Latinized forms of AS. * cotsæta (Somner-not authenticated) (= MLG. kotsete, kotse, koste = G. koth sa e, ko a e, also ko äte, ko at, kotse ); AS. also cotsetla (spelled kotsetla, kotesetla ) (ML. cotsetle), with term. -la equiv. to -ere, E. -er (as MLG. kotseter, kotzer, koster ), IMG:content-1403.jpg:[graphic] ( setler. That record [Domesday Survey] attests the existence of more than 25,000 servi, who must be understood to be, at the highest estimate of their condition, landle labourers; over 82,000 bordar i i; nearly 7,000 cotarii and cotseti , whose names seem to denote the po e ion of land or houses held by service of labour or rent paid in produce; and nearly 110,000 villan i. Above these were the liber i homines and sokemanni, who seem to represent the med i IMG:content-1404.png:[blocks in formation] 2. In Eng . law , one who lives on the common cottier (kot'i-er), n. See cotter1 . without paying any rent or having land of his own.