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British Popular Customs

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

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Nov. 6.] St. Leonard’s Day

Nov. 6.]

ST. LEONARD’S DAY.

Essex

Every tenant of the Manor of Writtell, upon St. Leonard’s Day, pays to the lord for everything under a year old a halfpenny, for every yearling pig a penny, and for every hog above a year old twopence, for the privilege of pawnage in the lord’s woods: and this payment is called Avage or Avisage.—Blount’s Law Dictionary, 1717.

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