gaola

1 gaola v. gaiola

2 gaola [ME gaole, ? cf. ME gavel] , ‘gale’, royalty paid by miners in Forest of Dean. Cf. C. E. Hart The Free Miners 49–55. 1485 concessimus ei officium custodie ~e de Magna Deane et Parva Deane alias dicte ~e subtus le Wode Pat 561 m. 19 (cf. ib. 509 m. 25: 1464 concessimus ei gaole minarum nostrarum infra forestam ‥ de Dean ‥, quod ‥ gaole ‥ Thomae Wodeward nuper habuit); 1493 concessimus ‥ eidem Thome [Bassh’] ~am nostram above the Woode infra forestam ‥ de Dene ‥ habend’ et occupand’ ~am predictam ‥ pro termino vite sue, una cum feodis, regardis et proficuis eidem ~e ab antiquo pertinent’ Ib. 574 m. 7.