A variant spelling of essoign; an excuse for non-appearance in court in medieval law.
Variant of essoign from Old French essoine. The spelling varies in medieval documents depending on scribe and regional pronunciation.
Medieval legal documents are full of creative essoin claims — monks traveling to distant abbeys, nobles summoned during harvest time — basically the 'my dog ate my homework' of the 1200s.
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