Note 33 — Chapter IV · DENIZENS OF THE WOODS, &c.—BIPEDS.
Reading edition
“Bage” is an old Lincolnshire word meaning a sod. In the overseer’s accounts of the neighbouring parish of Roughton occurs this entry twice in the year 1707: “2s. 6d. paid for one day’s work of church moor bages”; i.e., peat cut for fuel.