Englishry, or
Englescherie, is a legal name given, in
medieval England, for the status of a person as an
Englishman, i.e. as a commoner of native
Anglo-Saxon stock rather than a member of the
Anglo-Norman elite. Specifically,
presentment of Englishry refers to the establishment that a person slain was an Englishman rather than a
Norman. If an unknown man was found slain, he was presumed to be a Norman, and the administrative district known as the
hundred was fined accordingly, unless it could be proved that he was English. Englishry, if established, excused the hundred.