† terragen.
Obsolete.
1. Land; a territory, district.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun]
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kithc888
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earthOE
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 489/1 Terage, erthe, humus, solum, terragium.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1072 Þai comen to the cost..of the terage of Troy.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13631 Þat Pirrus schuld haue þe terrage of tessayle and þe tryed corone.
2. Old Law. Some kind of payment or duty. (Actual meaning uncertain; see quots.)The statements of the 17th cent. law dictionaries are guesses. Gross takes it as = pickage n. But, as some charters have terrage besides stallage and pickage, the meaning may be payment for the ground or ‘stance’ occupied at a fair or market without breaking the ground.
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1301 Charter Roll, 29 Edward I (P.R.O.: C 53/87) m. 8 Quieti de Muragio Pauagio Pontagio Wharuagio Stallagio & terragio per totum regnum nostrum.
1349 in W. Hardy Lancaster Charters (1845) 6 Quod..sint quieti de pavagio, passagio, paagio, lastagio, stallagio, tallagio, cariagio, pesagio, piccagio, et terragio.]
1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Terrage (Terragium) [quotes the prec. patent, and says] which seems to be an exemption á Præcariis, viz. Boons of Plowing, Reaping, &c. and perhaps from Money paid for digging or breaking the Earth in Fairs and Markets.
1749 in Pote Hist. Windsor 120 (Transl. of a Charter) That the said Custos or Canons and their tenants should for ever be free from payment of Toll, Picage, Paviage,..Terrage [etc.].
1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant II. 420 Terragium. The same as Picagium (413), Duty paid by a stranger on markets and fairs to break the ground and erect a stall.]
3. ? A toll or duty paid for landing; landing dues.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > other specific duties on goods
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1318 Charter Roll, 12 Edward II (P.R.O.: C 53/105) m. 1 De theolonio..hansagio ancoragio terragio kayagio passagio & sedagio..sint quieti.]
1664 Hale Treat. ii. iv, in Hargrave Coll. Tracts (1787) I. 57 The defendants..shewed usage to have had certain customs called land-leave, terrage, &c.
1664 Hale Treat. ii. vi, in Hargrave Coll. Tracts (1787) I. 76 Terrage, for the necessary unlading of goods before they come up to the common key.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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