† horngeld Old Law. Obs.
[f. horn n. + geld n.1]
A feudal ‘service’, being a form of rent fixed according to the number of horned cattle; cornage.
| c 1170 Newminster Cartul. (Surtees) 197 Et geldis, et danageldis, et hornegeldis. c 1250 Bracton Note-Bk. (Maitland, 1887) No. 1270 Quia dedit cornagium quod anglice dicitur horngelde. 1579 Rastell Expos., Hornegeld. 1598 Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 415 If he hold to give to the King Hornegeld..it is great Serjeantry. 1628 Coke On Litt. 107 a, Cornage..is called in old bookes horngeld. |