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prisonagium

prisonagium [OF prisonage] , prison-fee (paid by prisoner to gaoler). 1289 utrum homines ‥ ville, dum capi contingebat eosdem, de torragio seu ~io fuerint liberi et immunes, antequam participarentur in justiciatu immediato ‥ ville RGasc II 323b; 1315 arrestatus ‥ solvat ‥ quatuor denarios pro torragio vel ~io et non ultra Ib. IV 1626 p. 473b..

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