Meaning of hay-bote | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“If I be seised of a manor, and a stranger grants all manner of estovers for my manor to me, &c. by this grant I shall have⟳ house-bote, plough-bote, and hay-bote, &c.”

“There is there a certain wood called Heton-woode in oaks and the like⟳, in which the tenants of Heton, who hold⟳ by charter in fee, have⟳ house-bote and hay-bote, of the delivery of the lord; by which that wood is wasted [or much destroyed, destruitur], and on that account does not grow⟳ again as much in yearly value, in wood, pannage, or other issues of a wood.”

“Your husband was seised of only one carucate of land⟳, to which was appurtenant house-bote and hay-bote to be taken in that wood for burning at only one hearth in his chief messuage ; and if you by reason⟳ of your third part could in that wood take⟳ house-bote and hay-bote at your pleasure, there would be taken house-bote and hay-bote and fuel for two hearths, whereas they were previously appendant to only one hearth: wherefore, estovers for house-bote &c. you can not have⟳; and we paray judgment.”

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