"It is more a messuage than a premises," I explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11] Reference

Margaret, his mother, one messuage, a barn and four acres of ground in the parish of Kingston-on-Thames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference

The family continued to inhabit this new messuage until about fifty years before the commencement of our history, when it was much damaged by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference

Elizabeth Thomas Shakespere held a messuage in Lowston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

"Richard Shakespere, one messuage, half a yd land (14 acres), 14/.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

Also L. VIIi 'messuage, XVII bovates of land, CCC acr s of pasture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

Company a messuage, tenement, and melting-house, in the parish of St.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852] Reference

Richard Arderne owned a messuage in Stanford, Lincoln, 27 Edward III.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

A messuage called Winesemet, with appurtenances & interest in the ferry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suffolk deeds] Reference

In 1382 he and John Herlyng acquired a messuage and sixty acres of land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaucer's Official Life]

A messuage called Winesemet, with appurtenances, & interest in the ferry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suffolk deeds] Reference

In 49 Edward III he was granted a messuage with pertinences in Grippewic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaucer's Official Life]

A messuage called Winesemet, with appurtenances and interest in the ferry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suffolk deeds] Reference

A free tenant had a messuage and 3-3/4 acres, the rent of which was 3s. a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference

BLOWERS, SAMSON SALTER. absentee, messuage to be delivered to Benjamin Kent, 476.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

Elizabeth Shakspere to John Lone and William Prins of a messuage with three crofts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

Atturney irrevocable to make sale & delivery of a certaine messuage & Tenement lyeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suffolk deeds] Reference

West a freehold tenement and garden in Henley Street, the eastern half of the birthplace messuage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

Item in case my Excutors Shall not Sell my Said Ground rent and messuage and Lot of Grownd I give and Devise the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will of Elizabeth Armitt] Reference

A farm in Scrooby, consisting of a messuage, cottage, and 113 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture, only let at £23.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference

He also had another messuage and nine acres, for which he paid the annual rent of 1 lb. of pepper, worth about 1s. 3d.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference

Use of my Daughter Mary Brown Item and as to the messuage and Lot in trust to and for the Separate Use of the said Mary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will of Elizabeth Armitt] Reference

Then the auctioneer put up all that extensive and commodious messuage and shop situate and being No. 4, St. Luke's Square.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

As to Flacks, a protocol was immediately drawn up of his watery compliance with the will of Van der Kabel: and the messuage in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference

Grant by John Dursley, citizen and armorer of London, to William Serjaunt Taverner, of Stanes, and another, of a messuage, &c. in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

In 1373 he and Isabella his wife acquired by a devious series of transfers a messuage of land with reversion to their son Walter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaucer's Official Life]

That part of the demise, designed for the reception of the dead, is about three acres, upon, which stands one messuage, now the Golden.    From Wordnik.com.  [An History of Birmingham (1783)] Reference

Pondo has evinced a strong love for me, Bardianna, as the owner and proprietor of all that capital messuage with the appurtenances, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference

All that extensive and commodious shop and messuage with the offices and appurtenances thereto belonging situate and being No. 4 St. Luke's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

Small St.eet and extending backwards to a lane called St. Leonard's Lane and bounded on the outside thereof with a messuage in the holding of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time] Reference

English law then assured a widow in a third of her husband's property for life and the use of the capital messuage, if another was not provided her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

Ralph de Anderne, of Yoxhale, for a messuage in Yoxhale "(De Banco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

The customary rent of Rowington, 1605, mentions "Thomas Shakespeare, one close, 2/; one tofte and 16 acres, 13/ 4; one messuage, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Family] Reference

"All that great messuage or dwelling-house situate standing and being in Small Street within the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time] Reference

Place, "described as consisting of" one messuage, two barns, and two gardens, with their appurtenances. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference

13th February, 1861, described as 'All that messuage or Warehouse situate on the South West side of and fronting to Small Street in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time] Reference