Meaning of burgage | Babel Free

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A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.

countable, historical, uncountable

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“If any burgess be appealed of a plea whereon wager of battle may issue⟳ by a villein or outdweller , let⟳ him defend⟳ himself by oath, that is to say⟳ by the 36 men, unless he is challenged in respect⟳ of a crime that the law requires him to defend⟳ by battle, in no case ought a burgess to fight⟳ against a villein if he have⟳ challenged him unless before the dispute he shall have⟳ quitted the burgage.”

“Thomas Singleton, bailiff of the escheatery of the town of Lancaster, rendered account in 1441 of £8 4s. 7d. due from ancient rents and various burgages and plats of land⟳ which had escheated to the king as duke from various causes.”

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