Filctale

In old English law. A word used by Bracton to denote a kind of compotation or entertainment, given by bailiffs of hundreds, for the purpose of extorting money from those who attended them; (ut pecuniae extorqueant ab eis qui sequuntur hundreda sua et ballivas suas.) Bract. fol. 117 b. Spelman considers the proper reading of this word to be fildale, an ale, or drinking in a field.