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pagula [ back-formation < CL repagula] , something that restrains: a bridle, rein, bit. b bar, bolt. c (eccl.) rail before an altar. d (leg.) bar in a court room. e (as place-name) Paul, Yorkshire. a bagula, bridels GlC B 4; pugula, frena Ib. P. 138; bagula, bridel, i. frenum Ælf. Gl. 116; 10‥ bagulum, biotul WW.  b 1464 in solutis pro quadam ~a [gl.: barre] pro hostio interiori Ac. Chamb. Winchester W/E1/23; 1496 omnes tenentes qui pergunt et transeunt inter Werugge et curiam dominorum ‥ faciant et salvo custodiant ~as ibidem factas et non apertas eundo et redeundo ut nullum dampnum ibidem facturum fuerit ‥ ut non in posterum frangant nec deportant dicta [sic] ~as alio tempore in occidentali parte punfaldi KR Eccl. 1 69/2 m. 6.  c 1641 vi et armis in ecclesiam S. Petri et Pauli, sive liberam capellam regiam de Wolverhampton in comitatu predicto illicite et riottose fregerunt et intraverunt, et quandam ~am A. a raile stantem et positam in sacrario A. the chauncell ejusdem ecclesie fregerunt et prostraverunt (Indict.) MS Staffs RO Quarter SessR Easter.  d 1412 nullus serviens curie ‥ sit ‥ placitator ad ~am nec manutentor querelarum BB Wint. 18 (cf. ib. 121: 1506 placitator ad barram).  e de libero passagio apud ~am Meaux I 85.

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