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English
Noun
thenage (plural thenages)
- Alternative form of thanage
- 1813, J. Hodgson, F. C. Laird, The Beauties of England and Wales, Volume 12, Part 1, page 209,
- Hepple was held in thenage, by the annual payment of fifty shillings, by the ancestors of William Bardolf, in whose time King John changed that service into one knight's fee.
1823, Robert Surtees, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, Volume 3: Stockton Ward, page 328:Boldon Book.—Gilbert holds Heworth for three marks, and is acquitted of the ancient services which he owed for his tenure in Thenage, for Rikenhall, which he quit-claimed to the Bishop.
1974, T. G. Warburton, “17: The history of the Institute campus and its environs”, in Donald S. L. Cardwell, editor, Artisan to Graduate: Essays to Commemorate the foundation in 1824 of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, page 262:Chorlton Row was a sub-barony of the large barony of Manchester, with its sixty square miles, and at the beginning of the thirteenth century was held in thenage of the king, assessed as two ploughlands at an annual rent or service of twenty shillings, this sum in feudal times being accounted a knight's fee.