Eyre
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
See "Eire." F. The sixth letter of the alphabet. A fighter or maker of frays, if he had no ears, •was to be branded in the cheek with this letter.
Cowell.
Those who had been guilty of falsity were to be so marked.
2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 392.