Hist. Forms: 1 land-gafol, 3 lond-gavel, lon-ȝavel, 4 londgov(e)l, 5 langable, 7 languable, 7, 9 landgable, 9 -gavel. [OE. landgafol, f. land LAND sb. + gafol GAVEL sb.1] Land-tribute, land-tax; rent for land, ground-rent. Also attrib.
c. 1000. Rect. Sing. Pers., c. 2, in Schmid, Gesetze, 372. He sceal land-gafol syllan.
c. 1205. Lay., 7465. Fehten he wold wið Cezar þe axede lon-ȝauel her. Ibid., 7789. Ȝeond al he sette reuwen … Þo fengen þa lond-gauel.
1308. Cal. Close Rolls (1892), 59. [There are delivered to him 2s. 11d. of rent called] Londgovl [to be received in New Bukenham from the following tenants].
1478. R. Ricart, Mayor of Bristol’s Cal. (Camden), 9. This Toune of Bristowe is holde of oure souueraigne Lorde the Kinge in frank burgage and without meane by reason of his langable of the same.
1640. J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys (1883), I. 338. Out of his landgable rents of Bristoll, he gave yearly 3ll. 6s. 8d. to a preist.
1670. in Blount, Law Dict.
1676. Wood’s Life, etc. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), II. 340. The townsmen would have the college pay for it as a languable.
1882. Bramston & Leroy, Historic Winchester, 69. The King’s lands in Winton rendering Landgable and Burgage.
1897. Maitland, Domesday & Beyond, 182. 310 tenements paying landgavel to the king’s farmers.
