commonage
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The whole baronetage, peerage, and commonage of England did not contain a more cunning, mean, foolish, disreputable old rogue than Sir Pitt Crawley.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
In 1663, there was a “house called the Goat at Little Chelsea,” which, between that year and 1713, enjoyed the p. 95right of commonage for two cows and one heifer upon Chelsea Heath.
From A Walk from London to Fulham by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
The estate of Asbies contained fifty acres of arable land, six of meadow, and a right of commonage.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
His pony was only grazing on the town commonage hard by; he could have him brought in less than half an hour.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
It is the way your forefathers understood the law of commonage, and nobody ever grumbled that his neighbor had a cow or a pig too many!
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
