bosagium

bosagium [? cf. ME bos, bose = stall] , a customary rent in East Anglia, (?) cowpenny or ‘bosing-silver’ (cf.Cust. Rents 77). c1230 debet ad busagium de quolibet bove iij annorum et ultra ob. et de qualibet vacca lactrice j d. singulis annis ad festum S. Crucis Invencionis (Cust. Lessingham) Doc. Bec 106; c1250 singuli eorum in festo Invencionis S. Crucis, si habuerint vaccas, dant ad busagium j d. et pro juvenca pregnante j ob. et pro eo quod non jacebunt in falda abbatis [Holme, Norf] Cart. Rams. I 402; 1296 quedam consuetudo que vocatur busag’ et valet per annum xij d. IPM (Norf) 77/3b, r. 22 (cf. ib. 76/5: redditus †boscag’); c1300 solvit busagium viz. pro qualibet vacca lactante ob. et pro qualibet ove ob.; vel jacent in falda a vigilia Trinitatis usque Purificacionem B. Marie RentSurv. R (Norf) 465; 1302 busagium idem valet per annum vj s. viij d. solvendum ad festum Petri ad Vincula (Ext. Coney Weston) Suff Hund. 68; 1314 de bosag’ ad festum S. Mich. viij d. IPM (Norf) 43/32; c1325 de consuetudinibus custumariorum videlicet faldagio, ~io, hildersilver et hussilver (MinAc 1141/1) Cust. Rents 57; 1388 quidam redditus vocatus ~ium, viz. pro capite cujuslibet vacce in certis hamelettis ibidem j d. IMisc (Norf) 243/4; 1436 quieti de omnimodo passagio, pannagio, †boscagio Entries 674 b.

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