bateicium

bateicium, ~ia [OF bateiz] 1 denshiring, reclamation of land by ‘beat-burning’ (or land so reclaimed); cf. H. P. R. Finberg: Tavistock Abbey (Cambridge, 1951) 92. 1236 terra illa emendata est per baticium et alio modo BNB III 165 (Devon) ; 1246 non liceat ‥ plus in bateyceum comburere de dicta terra de Legh’ quam possint compostare (Mun. Woburn D 38/5) H. Finberg, Tavistock Abbey (1951) p. 92; 1251 locaverunt terram illam hominibus ad excolendum et faciendum baticium JustIt 1178 (Somerset) r. 2; 12‥ colere et appruare x acras ‥ sive in baticio sive in alio wannagio (Cart. Torre) MonExon 180; 1286 in xiiij acris ‥ batiscei houwandis et cremandis (Devon) MinAc 827/39 r. 2; 1293 debet ‥ semel howare batit’ Fees (Devon) 1313; 1307 de lxxxiij acris dim. baticii hoc anno assissis ad baticium Ac. Cornw II 228; 1321 baticie in eodem vasto valent per annum xviij d. (MinAc Cornw) Arch. J. V 121; 1332 [vastum] in baticio ad campipartem DCWells MSS I 351. 2 (?) beater or wicker hurdle. 1321 quoddam baticium precii xij d. et unum par spinarum pro lanis ‥ asportavit JustIt 546 r. 45.