homage

1) The tenants of a manor who owed allegiance as a group to the lord and attended the manor court. The jurors at the court were sometimes called the homagers.

1591 At this court it is presented by the Homage that Elizabeth, late wife of Robert Haighe of Sowewood ... [who] lately held ... a parcel of land and the buildings thereon in Dewisbury ... died since the last Court.

places Dewsbury
dates 1591

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