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Quotation dates: 1714-1808, 1909
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†ARAGE, ARRAGE, ARRIAGE, n. Also harrage, harriage, harradge, hareadge. A feudal service of an uncertain nature, due from a tenant to a landlord. Gen. found in phr. harr(i)age and carriage. See also Carriage. (See 3rd quot.)Sc. 1762 Faculty Decis. III. 174:
It is an agreed point, that a vassal may still be obliged to perform harriage and carriage.Sc. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 XIV. 164:
Upon Lord Breadalbane's estate, there is little reason of complaint, as bonnage, arrage and carriage, are mostly abolished.Sc. 1808 Jam.:
Arage. . . . This custom is not entirely abolished in some parts of S[cotland].Sc. 1909 Green's Encycl. Law of Sc. I. 447:
Arage. A term used to signify services by horses, or carriage by horses, due by a tenant to his landlord.Abd. 1714 Monymusk Papers (S.H.S.) 19:
Three goose, six cappons . . . with hareadge and cariadge and service to the heritor's croft.Per. c.1770 Stat. Acc.1 XV. 605:
These services were emphatically stiled bondage, particularly the manual labour at peats, hay, and harvest; working with a horse was called carriage; and these two species of labour, were, in the old tack, distinguished by the names of harrage and carrage.
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