(historical, Scotland) A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan.
Although there is no precise statistical analysis of assythments, bonds of manrent were only very rarely used in such circumstances.
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