† horngeldn.
Old Law. Obsolete.
A feudal ‘service’, being a form of rent fixed according to the number of horned cattle; cornage.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > other customary or feudal dues
land-cheapc848
manredlOE
horngeldc1170
tithing penny1192
averpenny1253
wattle-silver1263
faldfee?a1300
filstinga1300
horn-pennyc1320
common finea1325
wrongeld1340
yule-waitingc1380
lark silver1382
carriagec1400
week-silver1430
aida1475
average1489
castle-boon15..
winage1523
casualty?1529
fry money1530
casualityc1568
white hart silver1594
hornage1611
issues of homage1646
lef-silver1660
frith-silver1669
cert-money1670
aver-silver1847
socage1859
c1170 in J. T. Fowler Chartularium Abbathiæ de Novo Monasterio (1878) 197 Et geldis, et danageldis, et hornegeldis.
c1250 H. de Bracton Note Bk. (1887) No. 1270 Quia dedit cornagium quod anglice dicitur horngelde.
1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) Hornegeld.
1598 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions (1675) 415 If he hold to give to the King Hornegeld..it is great Serjeantry.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 107 a Cornage..is called in old bookes horngeld.
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