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coveragium

coveragium [OF covrage] , a covering, roofing. b (payment for) putting goods under cover. a 1352 si ‥ redditus ‥ a retro exstiterit ‥, bene licebit ‥ burgensibus ‥ ~ium ‥ scabellorum corruere et mercimonia ‥ super ‥ scabellis inventa distringere AncD B 4988 (cf. ib.: licenciam coverag’ [? ad] tria scabella ‥ et quod dicta scabella sint ubique aperta preter tectum).  b 1280 ballivi nundinarum S. Decumanni capiunt et de novo levaverunt cuveragium et theoloneum, viz. de quacumque re posita super terram, licet operta non fuerit, obolum JustIt (Som) 759 r. 2d.; 1341 burgenses [de Dertemuth’] ‥ sint quieti de hujusmodi theolonio, ‥ paiagio, cuveragio, stallagio ‥ et de omnibus aliis hujusmodi consuetudinibus de omnibus rebus ‥ suis propriis infra regnum ‥ et potestatem nostram prestandis ChartR 128 m. 9 (cf. ib. m. 3: [Wells, Som]: de theolonio, ‥ picagio, keveragio, moragio, muragio ‥); 1408 [de muragio, caiagio], ~io [et chiminagio] CalCh (Marlborough, Wilts) V 438; 1587 quod burgenses [de Liskerd] ‥ sint quieti de tolnet’, ‥ ancoragio, ~io, wharfagio Pat 1298 m. 9.

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