pannage

noun 4

Definitions

noun

1

Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.

2

Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.

3

The right to feed pigs in this manner.

4

A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

There is there a certain wood called Heton-woode in oaks and the like, in which the tenants of Heton, who hold by charter in fee, have house-bote and hay-bote, of the delivery of the lord; by which that wood is wasted [or much destroyed, destruitur], and on that account does not grow again as much in yearly value, in wood, pannage, or other issues of a wood.

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