Lexicographical Neighbors of Thenage
Literary usage of Thenage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domesday Studies: An Analysis and Digest of the Staffordshire Survey by Robert William Eyton (1881)
"1 Perhaps Richard Forester was one of the Kings's Serjeants, and his service was
connected with the Royal Forests, perhaps he was also a tenant by thenage. ..."
2. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1813)
"HEPPLE was held in thenage, by the annual payment of fifty shillings, by the
ancestors of William Bardolf, in whose time King- John changed that service ..."
3. Domesday Studies: An Analysis and Digest of the Somerset Survey (according by Robert William Eyton (1880)
"... had abolished the tenure-in-thenage, committing one estate to Villeins, granting
another to ..."
4. The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last by Walter Scott (1833)
"... on a sign from thenage, she left the room, turning on the young stranger, a*
she departed, a look of inexpressible anxiety and interest. ..."
5. An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County of by Eneas Mackenzie (1825)
"... was held in thenage by the annual payment of 50s. by the ancestors of William
Bardolf, in whose time king John changed that service into one knight's ..."
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