Middle English Dictionary Entry
burgāǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | burgāǧe n. Also borgage, barg-. |
| Etymology | OF bourgage & AL burgagium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Real estate held directly from the king or a lord, usually with no feudal obligation other than a fixed annual rent in money; a house or land lying within a borough; ~ lond; (b) the tenure by which such houses or land are held; (c) a borough, town; ~ toun.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1285) Select Pleas Manor.in Seld.Soc.225 : Sarra Lotrix reddidit burgagium suum in manus domini, de quo seisitus est Thomas de Fulwde. ]
- [ (c1290) Britton 2 (Lamb 403)12 : Bourgage est tenement de cite ou de bourg ou de autre lu privilegie par nous ou par nos predecessours. ]
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)3.77 : For toke þei on trewely þei timbrede not so hye, Ne bouȝte none Borgages [vr. bargages], beo ȝe certeyne.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)4.105 : Meny burgagys ybrent and bodyes þer-ynne.
- (1412) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.49 : Thayre feffes, yat are infeffed in all the Burgages and landys..thay enfeffe agayne.
- (1425) EEWills64/10 : My burgage, þe which I bought of Richard Mylnere in þe Newgate of Okeham.
- (1430-1) RParl.4.385b : The seid Geffray entred into the seid Burgages, Landes and Tenementz.
- (1444) *Doc.Maldon : Euery man that holdith burgage londe shall do iiij sewtis by the ȝeer.
- (1472-3) RParl.6.49a : That every persone..beyng seased of..any Burgagiez, Meses, or Tenementes within any of the iiii chief..Stretes of the said Toune..make..sufficient pavement before all their Burgagiez, Meses, and Tenementes.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)609/13 : Pers le notte..grauntid..halfe of hys burgage þat he had in þe grete strete of Crekelade.
b
- [ (c1218) in McKechnie Magna C.p.367 : Si aliquis teneat de nobis..per burgagium..nos non habebimus custodiam heredis. ]
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)141 : That no lond tenaunt..do homage ne feute to his cheif lord for ony tenement..that is holdyn purly in fre burgage [OF en fraunke burgage].
- (1444) Indent.Langton in Cmb.AC 4 (Baker 27)358 : The said wardein and his Felawes haue a licence..to amortise to the said College londes and tenements that ben holden in Burgage.
c
- (1444) *Doc.Maldon : If eny man wyll selle londe or house with in the burgage, that sale shalt be shewde at the nexte courte.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5221 : Þan was þe burgaige a-baiste, & brest vp þe ȝatis.
- a1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)145/24 : Vnneth a lytyll Sadow of Pees was in the burgage tounes.