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Chevage, is a sum of money paid by villains to their Lords in acknowledgment of their bondage for their several heads, whence it is called Cheva∣gium. Chevage of the French word Chief, as if it were the service of the head, of which Bracton ••aith, Chivagium dicitur recognitio in signum sub∣jectionis & Domini de Capite suo, Lambert writeth
it chivage, but it is more properly written chief-age.