Avarice |
Third cardinal sin: greed for material goods |
Chancery |
Royal English administrative office with a monopoly on charters and writs, begun under late Anglo-Saxon rule |
Charter |
Legal document recording the transfer of property |
Envy |
Sixth cardinal sin: desire for something that belongs to another |
Esquire |
Function in the royal household involving courier and/or military duties |
Exchequer |
Royal English tax office, begun under Anglo-Norman rule |
Gluttony |
Second cardinal sin: excessive indulgence |
Justice of the Peace |
Regional judicial officer appointed by the king to keep rioters in check |
Lechery |
First cardinal sin: excessive desire |
Pride |
Seventh, greatest and original cardinal sin: excessive self-admiration |
Rime Royal |
A poetic form arranging five-beat, roughly iambic lines into seven-line stanzas |
Sloth |
Fourth cardinal sin: inaction |
Vintnery |
Wine import and wholesale |
Wrath |
Fifth cardinal sin: uncontrolled anger |
Writ |
Court order |