Coign and livery
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Coign and livery
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Coign and livery or coyne and livery in Gaelic Ireland was the free entertainment which a chief exacted from his subjects for his servants and followers. Originally in Brehon law it took the form of a feast held when the chief passed through a subject's lands. By the late medieval period it was often an oppressive charge to billet and supply the chief's professional soldiers, enforced by those same soldiers. It was the most important of the exactions which lesser chiefs resented of their superio
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