chiminagen.
Feudal Law.
A toll formerly paid for liberty of passage through a forest.
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1217 Charter of Forest §14 Forestarius autem de feudo firmam nobis reddens pro balliva sua capiat chiminagium.]
1594 R. Crompton L'Authoritie & Iurisdict. des Courts f. 189v Chimynage, that is toll for wayfearage.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iii. iv. 70 Immunities and Exemptions from Theolonie, Pontage,..Chiminage..&c.
1617 in J. Guest Rotherham (1879) 381 Augt 8. Pd for Chymynage, or libertie of passage [over Rotherham Moor].
1704 Dict. Rusticum Chiminage, it is what is taken by Forresters, in Fee, throughout their Bailiwick, for Bushes, Timber, &c.
1765 Act 5 Geo. III c. 26 Pream. Assarts, purprestures, chiminages, piscaries.
1817 Ann. Reg. 1816 ii. Chron. 303 The accounts..proved..that chiminage had anciently been levied.
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