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countable and uncountable, plural manrents
(historical, Scotland) A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan. quotations
Although there is no precise statistical analysis of assythments, bonds of manrent were only very rarely used in such circumstances.
2003, Christine Peters, Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640, page 25