drengagen.
/ˈdrɛŋɡɛdʒ/ English History.
The tenure or service of a dreng. Also attributive.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure by service
socagea1325
escuagea1513
free or common (also free and common) socage1596
sokemanry1603
drengage1672
suithold1774
adscription1822
c1250 Testa de Nevill. 389 Johnes de Hawilton tenet Hawilton Claverworth & Wytington in capite de domino Rege in drengagio.
1277 P. 6 Edw. I, B.R. Rot. 7 Drengagium est certum servicium mes nemy Service de Chivaler.]
1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Aa2a Drengage, Drengagium, The Tenure by which the Drenches held their Lands.
1890 F. W. Maitland in Eng. Hist. Rev. V. 626 Even in the fourteenth century the drengage tenants of the bishop of Durham were still nominally liable to do ‘outward’.
1894 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorland 94 A mere trace of Drengage is to be found in Cumberland, two tenants only, but it existed in Durham and Northumberland.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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