lodemanage
(ˈləʊdmænɪdʒ)
[a. AF. lodmanage (also lamanage), f. OE. ládmann: see prec. and -age.]
Pilotage. court of lodemanage: a court which sat at Dover for the appointment of the pilots of the Cinque Ports.
| c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 403 His herberwe and his moone, his lodemenage. 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. iii, Maryners that..expert be of their lodmanage. 1485 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 24 Paid..John Henry lodesman for lodemanage of the same Ship..xs. a 1500 Piers of Fullham 308 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 13 Ȝef that he to long abyde To cast an anker at his tide, And faileth of his lodemonage. 1531 Charter-party in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pl. Crt. Adm. (1894) 37 All stowage lowaige wyndage pety lodmanage and averages acustomyd shalbe taken. 1616 Bullokar, Lodemanage, skill of nauigation. 1716 Act 3 Geo. I, c. 13 §1 A very useful..Society or Fellowship, of Pilots of the Trinity-House of Dover [etc.], who have always had the sole Piloting and Load-manage of all Ships and Vessels from the said Places up the Rivers of Thames and Medway..Every Person must appear at a Court of Loadmanage, and be publickly examined..touching his Skill and Abilities in Pilotage, before he is to be admitted a Member of the said Society. 1755 N. Magens Insurances I. 72 To the petty, or accustomary Average..belong Lodemanage, Towage and Pilotage. 1873 J. Lewes 1871 Census 25 There was in former times a Court called the Court of Lodemanage, which seems to have been a branch of the Admiralty jurisdiction. |
b. (See quot. 1607.)
| 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 14 §2 A pece of Flemmysh monney called an Englishe for lodemanage. 1607 Cowell Interpr., Lodemanage is the hire of a Pilot for conducting of a ship from one place to another. |