Meaning of conynger | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“A statute of 13 Rich. II. sets forth that "divers artificers, labourers, servants, and grooms, keep greyhounds and other dogs, and on the feast days, when good Christians are at church hearing Divine Service, go hunting in parks, warrens, and conyngers (rabbit warrens) of lords and others, to the very great destruction of the game, and at times (a la foitz), under such colour, make their assemblies, conferences, and conspiracies to rise and disobey their allegiance;"”

“In the following year the same oflicial spent 12d. on 200 large nails (gross spikengcs) bought for the doors (lzosmla) of the conynger (and several other doors), and 6d. for two hinges (vertinella) for the conynger gate (portus).”

“Moreover, local enterprise seems not always to have met with the encouragement it deserved, for in 1378 there was a presentment before the Sheriff of Norfolk that the common road between the conynger of Caister and the sea was from time immemorial a common passage for carts, horses, and men between Yarmouth and Winterton, ...”

“In 1316 an account of Kenfig town and castle furnishes the earliest evidence found for rabbit-farming in the country. This records the receipt of 2s. 6d. for 'a certain pasture which is called conynger,' its value having been reduced since its greater part had been submerged by the sea, damage undoubtedly caused by destruction or neglect of the sea defences during the uprising of Llywelyn Bren (1314-16). This rabbit warren, founded no doubt in the coastal dunes that were later to engulf the borough, was perhaps the same as that which figures in a grant of 1344 as the cuniculary of 'Berwes' (or Burrows).”

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