1894 Brewer’s / B / Bockland or Bookland
Land severed from the folcland, and converted into a private estate of perpetual inheritance by a short and simple deed or book.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.