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Tenandry, -i(e, Tennendry(e, -ie, n. Also: tenandré, -rye, tenawndry, tennandry, -i(e, tenantry, tenanrye, (tenandie), ten(n)endré, teneindri, tenend(u)ry, tenentri, -raye, tennentrie. [ME and e.m.E. tenantry (c1450), tenauntrie (c1460), tenentrie (1606).]

1. Land or other property, etc. let for rent; those parts of an estate let out to tenants (Tenand(e n.) rather than retained in the owner's or superior's own hands; land held of a superior ? chiefly or only for rent, also fre tenandry (see Tenand(e n. d). 1172–8 Reg. Episc. Morav. 454.
[Tenendam … in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam … sicut alias tenandries … ad eandem ecclesiam … pertinentes … tenent 1384 Cart. Levenax 7.
Tenenda et habenda [etc.] … cum tenentibus et tenandriis 14.. Acts I 341/2.
De qualibet tenandria seu villa quatuor vel sex homines 1438 Exch. R. V 62.
xv li. iij s. iiij d. de firmis baronie de Ekfurde … Et de xxiiij li. ix s. xj d. de firmis terrarum de Travernent … Et de xix li. xiij s. iiij d. de firmis tenandie de Elfinstoun et Wolstruther 1450 Reg. Episc. Glasg. II 376.]
Cum furca et fossa … cum tenandijs et tenandrijs(a) 1385 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS 410/1.
To schaw … throw qwat chartir … thai halde or clemys to hald the landys or tenandris of Lytillone … of hym 1397 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 34.
Ovre lord the kyng sall gif hym … the baronyis of Abirnethy & Bonkyll with the tenandrys of the forsaydys lardschyppyis in to fre regalle erytabilly 1398 Liber Melros 489 (see Demayn(e n.). 1413 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 364 (see Tenand(e n. d). c1420 Wynt. ii 364.
Off Egypte all the tennandrys [C. tenendreis] He redemyt … And mayde thame to the kyng demayne c1420 Wynt. viii 4107.
At Renfrewe … Fewteys he tuk off mony … That … awcht fewte for thar tenawndry [C. tenandry, W. tennandriis] 1426 Cal. Charters Suppl. 16 Jan.
I … sal vpgif … the superiorite of the said tenandry in the handis of the said Jonet & Walter thair ayeris [etc.] 1457–8 Acts II 49/2.
Gif the tenandry happynnis to be in warde in the kingis handis the saide tenande sall remane with his feuferme vnremovyt payande to the king siklik ferme 1463 Acts XII 28/2.
Tueching the landis of the half of the erldome of Leuenax … sa that ȝe will dedenȝe to assigne to me the said half landis with tennand & tennandry as in feall 1466 Acta Aud. 4/2.
The said twa merkis worth of land … war bot tennandry to the saide Sir James & na proprete the tyme of the gift 1482 Acta Aud. 106/2.
That the sade tennandry of Aldanestoun was in the saide Sir Johne of Sandylandis handis as superior of the sammyn … tharfor … the saide lard of Caldor sal remane with that termes male quhilk was xij boll of mele 1496 Acta Conc. II 31.
The wrangus occupacione of the landis of Grody [etc.] … sen the last Witsonday terme withowt tak or licence being in our sade soverane lordis handis … as our sade soverane lordis fre tennandry … and for the wrangus … withholding fra the kingis hienes of the malis [etc.] 1500 Acta Conc. II 453.
[The Lords ordain the defender to pay … £20 for the rent of the said lands … ] thai being ane tennandri of the sade baronry 1508 Reg. Privy S. I 249/2 (see Tenand(e n. (1) (d)). 1542 Reg. Privy S. II 726/1 (see b (2) below). 1557–8 Reg. Privy S. V i 80/1.
Tenandrye 1564 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I 155.
Likeas we unite … the foresaid lands and mill … with the houses [etc.] … in one entire and free tenandry to be called … the tenandry of Birsay 1567 Reg. Privy S. VI 13/2.
Tennandrie a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 273.
Albeit the superior be forfalted yet his wassalls … should bruik their tenandries and hold them of their nixt imediat superior 1692 Pitcairne Assembly (1722) 47.
If I had such tenandry in my little interest, I vow to God I should let it lay lee, … if my tenants were as impertinently homely with me, as they're with their master(b) 1476 Hay Geneal. 83.
With the superioritie of the tenantry of Petcorveis 1695 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. IV 236.
The same tenantry lying on the last and west side of the loaning(c) 1530 Lennox Mun. 239.
Tenanrye(d) 1385 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS 410/1.
Teneindri 1507 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 139.
The landis and annuellrentis … to be holden … with property and tennendrye and the pertinentis thairof 1516 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 160.
The … complaint maid be the communitie tuicheing the tenendreis sett furth on thair Borrow mure to the tenentis thairof for the tyme 1524 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 390.
Tenendry 1531–2 Dunferm. Reg. Ct. 46.
He is enterit to the landis of Brerehill with tennenttis and tennendreis 1558 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I 182.
Certane taxationis payit be him for the said baronie baytht propirtie and tenendries thairof 1584 Reg. Privy C. III 673.
Thair saidis tennendreis salbe annext to the Kingis Majesteis propirtie as his propir rent a1586 Maitland Ho. Seytoun 21.
King Robert gave to the said Allexander the barony of Trenent, wyth the tenendury thairof for the tyme 1597 Skene Verb. S. (1599) s.v. Recognition.
Lands … annalied and sauld be them heritably to be halden of themselues and their aires ceasis to be propertie to them and becomes tennendry immediatly halden of them and their aires c1630 Hope Minor Practicks (1734) 303.
Union is an … incorporation of two or more grounds or tenements into one, called tenendry or barony … with this effect that one sasine given upon one of these grounds is sufficient for all(e) 1532 Treas. Acc. VI 59.
To … poynd certane tenentriis of Craufurd for thair Witsounday malez

b. The state or condition of being a tenant; of or pertaining to this sort of land holding; tenancy. Chiefly in tenandry.(1) 1525 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 76.
Anent tenandre that tenandes suld warn thair maister fourtye dais or the term or ellis thai suld paye the maill and sic lyk the maister suld warn the tenand xl^ti dais or ellis the tenand mycht sit in his hous payand the maill thairfor 1595–6 Purves Revenue Crown 19.
And shall not give our consent ether for tennandrie or friendship … to the alienatione … of any of his Majestis rents, landes [etc.] 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Manus.
It is not leasum to ony man to mortifie ony parte of his lands to the kirk without consent of the king … because the king may be thereby prejudged in his tennendrie, dewtie & service fra the quhilk the kirk-men … were exeemed(2) 1391 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 23.
Schir Murthow … sal indow hir in the barony of the Redehall … in tenandri and in demayn 1473 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS App. 388/1.
[His son shall] endow [his said spouse] … in tenandri and in demayn 1542 Reg. Privy S. II 726/1.
Off the gift of the warde of the ten merk land and tenandrie of auld extent of Covayle … quhilk pertenit to umquhill Johne Houstoun … in superiorite, haldin of him be the said William Flemyng in tenandry 1587 Acts III 433/2.
That quhair the saidis landis … ar sett in fewferme tak and assedatioun or ar disponit in frie tennendrie, in blenche cane, or for seruice of waird and releif or vtherwayes … the saidis heretable frie tennentis fewaris takkismen and vtheris richtuus titularis tharof [etc.] 1627 Rep. Parishes 17.
The wholl parochin off Langtoun payit off old tuentie schilling scottis money the land that wes in tennentrie [pr. tennentlie] with gersom and seruice 1627 Rep. Parishes 97.
The Maynes of Clerkingtoun hes bein of auld in maynsing bot within this tuelff yeiris a pairt thairof is sett in tennendrie for sex hundreth merkis a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 13.
The haill frie halders haveing 40 s. land in tenandrie haulden of the king 1633 Sibbald's Orkn. & Shetl. 8.
Rousay … contains one parish church, and belongs to the King, and is possessed by some gentlemen in tenendrie 1677 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 249 (28 June).
To possess and manure the lands of Old Dequhitt which he took in tenandrie and has not yet possessed or manured the same

2. The tenants of a particular estate, etc., collectively. 1589 Douglas Corr. 241.
[To] warne the hale tennendre … to meit us thair 1610 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 202.
The tenendrie of the baronie of Schewes 1614 Inverness Rec. II 129.
The saides baillies beinge convenit … for the commoun weil of the toune and tenentraye 1656 Fam. Innes 183.
I intend to close with the whole tenandrie for ane fywe yeirs take and to incloud with their fermes ther wholl customes and services and make rent of all 1656 Fam. Innes 183.
I find the wholl tenantry much depauperat 1684 Glamis Bk. Record 10.
The tenendrie their att that time were a race of evill doers … mislabourers of the ground 1684 Lauder Notices Affairs II 537.
That the gentry refused to concurre with them, so that they ather could get no session constitute at all, or else it was only of the tenandry

b. The fact of being a tenant. 1565 Edinb. Univ. MS La.iii.388a, 20b.
Nather may the defendar … be hard to give in ony vtheris defensis bot alanerlie exceptionis aganis the witnesis as affinite consanguinitie seruient tenendrie and siclyke