courtledge

plural courtledges

1. Southern EnglandWest CountryalternativeAlternative form of curtilage.

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   I give to my kinsman Alexander Trevethan, John Nicholls of Trereife, Esq., George Veale of Trevailer, Gent., Thomas Rowe, Clerk, the Vicar of Madron, and to the succeeding Vicar and Vicars, Abraham Chirgwin and Thomas Baynard both of Madron, yeomen, My little Tenement in Leriggon, […] and the House and Courtledge now in the possession of Cicely Benver, Widow for her life […] and all that House, Courtledge and Cellar, Granted by Lease to George Edmonds, and that Cellar and Courtledge now in the possession of Daniel Hawkey, Merchant, By Grant for 99 years, […]

   1710 July 20 (date written; Gregorian calendar), George Daniell, “Abstract of the Will of George Daniell, the Founder of the Madron School, from the MSS. of the Late George C. Boase”, in John S. Amery, Maxwell Adams, E. Windeatt, H Tapley-Soper, editors, Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to Local History, Biography and Antiquities of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall, volume VI, Exeter, Devon: James G. Commin, published 1911, →OCLC, item 62, pages 74–75

   On the middle of the down stood a wayside inn; a desolate and villanous-looking lump of lichen-spotted granite, with windows paper-patched, and rotting thatch kept down by stones and straw-bands; and at the back a rambling courtledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and bare-foot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.

   1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 166