groundagium

groundagium [ME groundage] , ‘groundage’, payment for ships or cargo lying aground. Cf. gronagium, terragium. 1448 (v. ancoragium); 1476 iij barelli olei ‥ projecti fuit [sic] ad terram aridam apud M. ‥; et dat domine de fine pro ~io dictorum barellorum [xij d.] DL CourtR 103/1420 m. 1v; 1545 pro ankeragio, xij d. ‥ ultra xvj s. viij d. superius onerat’ pro ~io duorum [sic] navium Rutland MSS Ac. Bailiff (Notts. etc.) 35–7 Hen. VIII m. 12d..