covenance

When the couple opted to throw in with goats they realized the city had a covenance against the split-toed ungulates.

When the couple opted to throw in with goats they realized the city had a covenance against the split-toed ungulates.

In the city the king most commonly holdeth his court at a castle, in which castle are many famous monuments; there is a most sumptuous church in the same, in which standeth a silver altar gilded and set with rich stones, and over it is a covenance full of all manner of silver ornaments belonging to mass.