Messuage

Glendinning is supposed to have inhabited, the head of the Allen, about five miles above its junction with the Tweed, shows three ruins of Border houses, belonging to different proprietors, and each, from the desire of mutual support so natural to troublesome times, situated at the extremity of the property of which it is the principal messuage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Huge triangular piles of planks are also reared in different parts of the devoted messuage; and a little group of trees, that still grace the eastern end, which rises in a gentle ascent, have just received warning to quit, expressed by a daub of white paint, and are to give place to a curious grove of chimneys. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The family continued to inhabit this new messuage until about fifty years before the commencement of our history, when it was much damaged by ❋ Unknown (2008)

Witness said she had no business to come again, after this Kitty Kelly desired Witness to make some Socks for the Defd., which Wit. accordingly did and carried them to Defd. who gave her Three shillings and Six pence for a pair of the socks and told her, she might get whatever she wanted, for the money in the shop, Defd. also asked Wit. if Kitty Kelly had delivered her any messuage. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Perceye's chantry again, which Dugdale considered the oldest (though he does not give the date) was endowed in 1350 with six messuages, one shop, six acres of land and 40s. rent, all lying in Coventry, to which in 1407 William Botoner and others, added a messuage and twenty-four acres of land in the city for another priest. ❋ Frederick W. Woodhouse (N/A)

Margaret, his mother, one messuage, a barn and four acres of ground in the parish of Kingston-on-Thames. ❋ Timothy Harley (N/A)

"It is more a messuage than a premises," I explained. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Except," said Charles, "that it is usual to offer one's guests the most comfortable arm-chair in the messuage and not to eat all the fattest strawberries oneself, I can't say that I do;" and he fluffed a second mashie pitch with his cigar ash well short of the drawing-room fender. ❋ Various (N/A)

And alsoe all that messuage or tenemente with thappurtenaunces, wherein one John Robinson dwelleth, scituat, lyeing and being, in the Blackfriers in London, nere the Wardrobe; and all my other landes, tenementes, and hereditamentes whatsoever, ❋ William Allan Nielson (N/A)

Continuing along the road as we studied the home, we were led around to the landward front and into the midst of the ancient messuage. ❋ Cortelle Hutchins (N/A)

If acetylene were an illuminating agent suitable for adoption by dwellers in city or suburb, where the back premises and open-air part of the messuage are reduced to minute proportions or are even non-existent, this objection might well be fatal. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

The tenements held in villenage of the lord of a manor, at least where they consisted of a messuage or dwelling-house, are often called _astra_ in our older books and court-rolls. ❋ Various (N/A)

In from the life of the old messuage, came a touch of the barbaric; weird minor songs that belonged with the hot throb of the African tom-tom floated in through the deep windows, and strangely mingled with the thin tinkle of the harpsichord and the tender strains of an old English ballad. ❋ Cortelle Hutchins (N/A)

In 49 Edward III he was granted a messuage with pertinences in Grippewic. ❋ James Root Hulbert (1926)

Waterpyrye and one messuage in Thomele in Oxfordshire, and the manor of ❋ James Root Hulbert (1926)

In 1373 he and Isabella his wife acquired by a devious series of transfers a messuage of land with reversion to their son Walter. ❋ James Root Hulbert (1926)

The deed is dated "Saturday, the feast of St John the Evangelist, 1337," and it states that a license was given in consideration of one messuage and two bovates of land in the village of Middleton near Pickering for a certain chaplain to celebrate ❋ Gordon Home (1923)

Now nothing rages so merrily in the blood as the instinct of picking out houses for other people, houses that you yourself do not have to live in; and those Realtors whom we have dismayed by our lack of enthusiasm would have been startled to hear the orotund accents in which we vouched for that property, sewage, messuage, and all. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

Secondly, while my main object in visiting the said messuage was to insure, if possible, against the future contraction of some complaint or disease of the hams, I have, I fear, already defeated that object by sitting for upwards of ninety minutes upon a chair which is rather harder than the living rock, and whose surface I have reason to believe is studded with barbs. ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)