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Definition of Hidages
1. hidage [n] - See also: hidage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hidages
Literary usage of Hidages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Antiquities of Shropshire by Robert William Eyton (1856)
"... held by the Prior of Wenlock at Domesday, or acquired by him afterwards.
A comparison of hidages will hardly facilitate our search, for the conventional ..."
2. Domesday Studies: An Analysis and Digest of the Somerset Survey (according by Robert William Eyton (1880)
"lu framing detailed Tables of the Old Hundreds of Somerset, we uniformly devote
two columns to the Domesday Manors and to the Domesday hidages of such ..."
3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1905)
"Some drastic alterations are needed in dealing with the tribal and burghal hidages
in order to make the number of hundred-hide groups correspond with the ..."
4. William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans by Frank Merry Stenton (1908)
"This new impost must, one would suppose, have called for a restatement of the
old hidages, but no such record has come down to us. ..."
5. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"Most of the hidages given by Bede also have the further peculiarity of being
based on a unit of 120, but this ceases to be remarkable, in an artificial ..."
6. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Prepared by Great Britain Public Record Office, Great Britain Court of Chancery, H. C. Maxwell Lyte, England Sovereign (1272-1307 : Edward I) (1901)
"... whose heir he is, that his lands and men should be quit of shires and hundreds
and suits and hidages, and all plaints that belong to shires and hundreds ..."
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