I have receyved of the tenaunts that I undrestod out [owed] you werst wyll viij.
I lete you wete the moste parte of alle the tenaunts have bene here with me for to see me, and they have tolde me all the demenyng as it is undrewrete.
And, sir, your man tolde me that ye desired to knowe the demenyng at Cotton of the tenaunts and other.
Nevirthelesse as for mony thei get none of hym redely, ner of the tenaunts nowthyr, as he can thynk yet.
And this day in the mornyng I wente to Sen Lauerauns Chirche; and there I spak to hem and told hem ye merveylid that thei wold take any distresse or warne any of your tenaunts that thei shuld pay yow no mony.
I promyse yow it shall do yow ease and your tenaunts bothe, and God preserve.
I chargyd the tenaunts that they shold proced no ferther in ther coort upon peyn that myght folle of it, and they lettyd for a seasen.
Item, the seid Gonnor seid after that I was gon to the tenaunts of the seid town, that his supersedias was noght, and as for the rescuse, he shuld purvey a mene to excuse it.
Item, the maner londs at Gresham, with othre tenaunts londs that be fallyn in your hands ben letyn to ferme.
The seid Gonnor seid I shuld not have hym, and dede set alle the tenaunts up on me and made a gret noyse, and seydyn alle pleynly I shuld not have hym yf he wold abyde with hem.
To my trusty and wel belovyd, the Vycary and Tenaunts of my Lordschepe of Gressham.
And if the rede shuld be caryed thens, the tenaunts shuld thynk that ye fered sum new entre, and it shuld sore discomfort hem, for thei whisshed whan it was caried to the maner that it had be leyd ther thus pesibly ij.
I wold that the marche that Bryge had myght be kept in your owne hand this yer, that the tenaunts myght have ruschis to repare with her howsys.
On Tentale hathe entred in to a parte of Felbregge lyvelod, and a corte holden, and the tenaunts retorned.
Thys be the parcell underwryten of such godys as were taken and beren away at Haylesdon, of John Pastons, hys sones and hys servaunts by the Duk of Suffolk servaunts and tenaunts the xiiij.
Item, Arblaster hathe sent a letter to myn Lorde of Oxenefords tenaunts that be nerrest abowt Cotton to help John Paston yf they be sent to, &c.
Pleysed you to wyte that on Wensday last passyd Dabeney, Naunton, Wykes and John Love werr at Drayton for to speke with yourtenaunts ther to put hem in comfort and for to aske money of hem also.
And all the tenaunts bestes wer put fro Calcalcott[193.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenaunts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
