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wagessum

wagessum [cf. ME wose, woise < AS wase], (Essex) stretch of muddy land, mudflat, ‘ooze’ (v. et. wosa). 1390 in ‥ †wacress' vocata Tepiswose (Prittlewell, Essex) Cl 232 m. 35d.; 1390 terra voc' Howeslande et wagess' vocat' Tepyswose (Prittlewell, Essex) Cl 232 m. 36d.; 1402 cum ‥ placeis ~orum ‥ vocatis le Ree et Chapmansond, cum ‥ piscaria et proficiis de eisdem ‥ provenientibus, que ‥ placee ~orum in quodam brachio maris existunt Pat 368 m. 26; 1409 quoddam morum sive ~um (Essex) Ib. 382 m. 14; 1568 quatuor acras ~i [in marg.: Sweets Ouze] (CourtR Chalkwell) P. Benton, History of Rochford Hundred (Rochford, 1888) p. 485.

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