thenage

Noun

 * 1) * 1813, J. Hodgson, F. C. Laird, The Beauties of England and Wales, Volume 12, Part 1, page 209,
 * Hepple was held in thenage, by the annual payment of fifty shillings, by the ancestors of William Bardolf, in whose time King John changed that service into one knight's fee.
 * Hepple was held in thenage, by the annual payment of fifty shillings, by the ancestors of William Bardolf, in whose time King John changed that service into one knight's fee.