Definition of "adjument"

Thus their office is declared to ne these particulars following: […] 3. To be adjuments, or assistants, to the bishops in cathedrals, as be the archdeacons abroad; […] .

1641 June 15, Charles I: Debate on a Motion for abolishing of Deans, Chapters, &c., 1807, The Parliamentary History of England, Volume II: 1625—1642, Hansard, page 831

But by all things needful or requisite, all necessary power either operative or elective, all necessary instruments and adjuments extrinsical and intrinsical, and all conditions are intended.

1656, Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall, “The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance, Clearly Stated and Debated between Dr. Bramhall and Thomas Hobbes”, in William Molesworth, editor, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, volume V, published 1861, page 386

For if the ſoul of man vvere emancipated by virtue, it vvould not need any regulation or monition, beſides that of its invvard Tribunal; vvhich becauſe ſin does uſurp upon, has ſome relief from thoſe extern adjuments.

1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter XIV, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], page 214