furnagen.
Obsolete exc. Historical.attributive.1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. iii. 112 A seignorial oven in which all the tenants were obliged to bake their bread and pay furnage dues.
(a) The process of baking; the price paid for baking. (b) Feudal Law. (See quot. 1753; the interpretation is justified by the medieval Latin quots. in Du Cange at Furnagium.)
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c1468 in J. Stow Survey of London (1720) II. v. xxv. 341/1 The Baker shall be allowed..two Lofis for Fornage.
1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes v. 7 They shulde have no corne to furnage.
1572 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth II. 48 Wood for firnage of breed by the yere.
1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §43. 26 This serjant shal take for fornage of pain de main for the kinges mouth.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Fornagium, Chimney-money, also the Landlords fee for his tenants baking in his Oven...Furnage, as Fornagium.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Fornage, the fee taken by a lord from his tenants, bound to bake in the lord's oven, or for a permission to use their own.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Furnage, a sum formerly paid by the tenants of the Lord of the manor for right to bake in his oven.
1882 A. W. Alexander Preston Guilds 6 A burgess may make an oven upon his grounds, and bake for his furnage for one horse load of flour or meal, one halfpenny.
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