Thistle Take
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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." Cowell.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
It was a custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that lf, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he shouid pay a halfpenny a-piece to the lord of the fee. And at Fiskerton, in Nottinghamshire, by ancient custom, if a native or a cottager killed a swine abave a year old, he paid to the lord a penny, which purchase of leave to kill a hog was also called "thistle-take." Cowell.