“Corrody is a partition for one’s sustenance. Be it bread, ale, herring, a yearly robe, or sum of money for the robe. So of a chamber, and stable for my horses, when the same is coupled with other things….” Sir Henry Finch, Law, or a Discourse Thereof 162 (1759).
corody
corody (kor- orkahr-[schwa]-dee). Hist. An allowance of money, accommodation, food, or clothing given by a religious house to any person who signed over personal or real property or both in exchange or to a royal servant at the Crown’s request. • The amount of property required from a person who purchased a corody depended on the person’s age and remaining life expectancy. The Crown was entitled to a corody for a retired royal servant only from houses that the Crown had founded. Theoretically, the cost of a retired royal servant’s care would come from the royal purse. But since the royal purse did not always open, royal servants were not always accepted as coro-diaries. — Also spelled corrody. Cf. LIFE-CARE CONTRACT. — corodiary (k[schwa]-roh-dee-air-ee), corrodiary, n.
