Obs. Also 7 fermage. [a. F. fermage: see FARM sb. and -AGE.] a. The system of farming taxes, tithes, etc. b. Leasehold tenure.
To let in farmage: to let on lease. c. see quot. 1611. d. Cost of cultivation.
1528. Roy, Rede me (Arb.), 102.
| And even as they do by farmage | |
| Brynge the londe into a rearage. |
1530. A Proper Dyaloge (1863), 12. Which to gentillmen they let in farmage.
1611. Cotgr., Fermage, farmage: the profit made of, reuenue comming in by, a farme.
1650. Elderfield, Tythes, 123. It seems they were willing to deduct the charge of the Fermage before they marked the Tythes.
