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† bonaght Obs.
Also 6–7 bonnaght, bonoghty, 7 bonaught, bonnoght.
[Irish: O'Reilly has buanacht subsidy, quartering of soldiers; O'Donovan buanacht military service.]
A tax or tribute formerly levied by Irish chiefs for the maintenance of soldiers.
1568in Dymmok Ireland App. (1843) 88 Bonaghtes due to the Queens Majestie for her Galloglasses. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 78/2 The Irish impositions of quinio and liverie, cartings, carriages..bonnaght and such like. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. v. (1821) 69 Large promises, for increasing his Bonnoght. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) III. xviii. 357 The barbarous practices of coshering and bonaght..borrowed from those native chieftains. |