A page; an attendant; a herald. See Barnes v. State, 88 Md. 347, 41 Atl. 781.

A customary payment of money instead of hens at Christmas; acomposition for eggs. Cowell.

A fine for flight on account of murder. Domesday Book.

In Saxon law. A prison, a gaol, or house of correction.

Sax. In old English law. An acquittance from a fine for hanging a thief. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47,

Henry the Old, or Elder. King Henry I. is so called in ancientEnglish chronicles and charters, to distinguish him from the subsequent kiugs of thatname. Spelman.

In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class offreemen, viz., folgeras, (folgarii,) who had no habitations of their own, but were houseretainersof their lords.

Peter-pence, (q. v.)

In Saxon law. The service of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord.

A government exercised by seven persons or a nation divided into seven governments. In the year 500, seven different monarchies had been formed in England by the German tribes, namely, that of

In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger who carriedmessages between kings or states, and especially proclamations of war, peace, ortruce. In English law, a herald is an officer whose duty

The art, office, or science of heralds. Also an old and obsolete abuse ofbuying and selling precedence in the paper of causes for hearing.

In English law. An easement or liberty, which consists in the right topasture cattle on another’s ground.Feed for cattle in fields and pastures. Bract, fol. 222; Co. Litt. 40: Shep. Touch. 07.A

The first crop of grass or hay, in opposition to aftermath orsecoud cutting. Paroch. Antiq. 450.

An officer in the royal house, who goes before and allots the noblemen and those of thehousehold their lodgings; also an innkeeper.

Lodgings to receive guests in the way of hospitality. Cowell.

IL.rbored or entertained in an inn. Cowell.

An inn. Cowell.

A harrow. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 77.

To harrow. 4 Inst. 270.