local. [a. F. cueillerie action or product of collecting, f. cueillir to collect.] The name in Carlisle of a customary tenure of small copyhold tenements held from the Corporation at an annual rental. Also attrib., as cullery tenure, tenant, rent, etc.
See Nanson in Trans. Cumbrld. & Westm. Antiq. Soc. (1883), VI. II. 305 ‘On the customary Tenure at Carlisle called Cullery Tenure.’
1600. Carlisle Audit-bk. (Nanson), Item the rent of the cullerie or pettye farmes of the cittye.
1673. Cullery Admittance Bks., Secundum consuetudinem vocatam coulerie.
1708. Audit-bk., A Rentall of the Rentes belonging to the Corporation of Carlisle called Cullerie Rentes, as they are collected in the year one thousand seven hundred and eight.
1883. Nanson (as above) 309. It is clear that the term cullery rents in its widest signification included any small annual rents due to the Corporation.
