The profit of estovers is the right to take wood for use as fuel or for domestic or agricultural purposes. |
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In High Wood the ancient tenants had common of estovers, for which each paid annually with a hen or one shilling in lieu. |
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Is the sharing to be done by inhabitant or by household as with rights of estovers? |
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Coke goes on to say estovers signify sustenance, aliment, or nourishment. |
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Their rights of usufruct, grazing, pannage, estovers, turbary and piscary survived for many centuries before being terminated: first informally, later in wholesale acts of enclosure. |
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