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† hungil, -ill Obs. local.
[In 1450 houndgilt:—OE. type *hundgild ‘dog-payment’.]
A payment under the Forest Laws on account of dogs.
In quot. 1621 app. a fine for not expeditating them, = foot-gild; but otherwise explained by Marshall.
1450Rolls Parlt. V. 195/1 Thomas Cateby..hath..lxs. of houndgilt silver yerly..by the hands of oure Receivour of oure Duchie of Lancastre. 1621N. Riding Rec. (1894) I. 38 As towchinge the expeditating of doggs they saye that the laste yeare there was about the summe of xiijli xs collected within the said libertie by the graves of Pickeringe, for hungill. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Horsam, Hungil-Money, a small tax which is still paid (though the intention of it has long ceased) by the townships on the north side of the Vale, and within the lathe or weapontake of Pickering, for horsemen and hounds kept for the purpose of driving off the deer of the forest of Pickering from the corn-fields which bordered upon it. |