Thistle Take
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
It was a custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester,- that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permit them to g:raze or take but a thistle, he shall pay a halfpenny apiece to the lord of the fee. And at Fiskerton, in Nottinghamshire, by ancient custom, if a native or a cottager killed a swine above a year old, he paid to the lord a penny, which purchase of leave to kill a hog was also called "thistle take."
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