jan 1, 1539 - ox gate
Description:
The OED has examples of this word as a Scottish equivalent of oxgang but that is not the meaning in Yorkshire where the ‘gate’ was a right for the ox to ‘go’ onto certain grazing lands, it was a right to pasturage. 1539 <i>de firma unius clausi ... vocati Welborne Oxe-close in tenura diversorum tenentium ... qui quidem tenentes habent inter se pasturam pro vjxx bobus, Anglice vjxx oxegates ibidem</i> (SS83/321).Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1539
Now
~ 486 years ago