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† droveden Obs.|ˈdrəʊvdɛn| [f. drove n. + den n.1] A wooded hollow or tract into which swine and other beasts might be driven to feed. In the Weald of Kent neighbouring proprietors sometimes had common of pannage in these: see quots. 1778–91.
1309Roll of Pleas, 3 Ed. II in Robinson Com. Law Kent (1791) 269 Arbores in prædictis terris & tenementis crescentes, una cum proficuo Pannagii, ratione Drovedenn sunt ipsius Archiepiscopi. 1332Literæ Cantuarienses 15 Aug. (Rolls No. 85) I. Lett. 463 Par les usages de Kent de drovedenn, le boys de cheyne et de fou deit estre le nostre, a copier, et a carier..et a entrier en noz drovedenn pur les cariages faire. 1778Hasted Kent I. cxlii/2 A custom peculiar to the Weald, that the lords of whom the drovedennes were holden in gavelkind, should have all the great oaks, ash, and beech growing there, together with the pannage thereof, and the tenants only the underwoods, or at most the oaks, ash, and beech, under forty years growth. 1791T. Robinson Comm. Law Kent ii. viii. 265 It was usual in ancient Royal Donations of Manors lying out of the Weald, to render the grant more compleat by an additional Privilege of Common of Pannage..in one or more Dens in the Weald..And these Denns set out for the Agistment of Hogs and other Droves of Cattle, were thence called Drovedennes. |