Enure, "myself to enure" (N[48],b), use, make a habit of, accustom. "He gan that Ladie strongly to appele Of many haynous crymes by her enured."—Spenser, Fairy Queen (1596), v. ix. 39.
Envies, "to see ... envies take in a trap" (R[257],b), enemies.
Equity, see Mankind, Amended Readings.
Erch (passim), ere I—er' 'ch—ere ich.
Escheats, "the blind escheats" (R[183],d), lands or tenements which fell to the crown or lord of the fee through failure of heirs or corruption of blood: the latter kind was abolished by the Felony Act, 33 & 34 Vict., ch. xxiii. "The last consequence of tenure in chivalry was escheat; which took place if the tenant died without heirs of his blood, or if his blood was corrupted by commission of treason or felony. In such cases the land escheated or fell back to the lord—that is, the tenure was determined by breach of the original condition of the feudal donation. In the one case there were no heirs of the blood of the first feudatory, to which heirs alone the grant of the feud extended; in the other the tenant, by perpetrating an atrocious crime, forfeited his feud, which he held under the implied condition that he should not be a traitor or felon."—Blackstone, Commentaries, bk. ii., ch. 3.
Exaltations, "follow their good exaltations" (R[234],d), exhortations.
Extent, "at the highest extent," etc. (R[219],a), sale under compulsory powers (M).
Extreats, "the scape of extreats" (R[183],d), i.e. estreats, enforced by trick. At law an estreat is an official copy of the specification of fines or penalties (such as a forfeited recognisance for use of the bailiff or sheriff's officer in levying). "A forfeited recognisance," if taken by a justice of the peace, "is certified to the next sessions; and if the condition be broken by any breach of the peace in the one case, or any misbehaviour in the other, the recognisance becomes forfeited or absolute; and being estreated or extracted, taken out from among the other records, and sent up to the Exchequer; the party and his sureties, having now become absolute debtors of the Crown, are sued for the several sums in which they are respectively bound."—Blackstone, Comment., bk. iv., ch. 18. See Respublica for authorities dealing with the systems of extortion referred to in these lines.
Faitour, "ye are no faitour" (M[12],c), deceiver, imposter: a generic reproach. "There be many of you faitours."—Gower, Confessio Amantis (1393), i. 47.
Fall, "fall back, fall edge" (R[250],b), i.e. whichever way it turns out I am prepared (edge = aside or sideways).