[a. AF. lodmanage (also lamanage), f. OE. ládmann: see prec. and -AGE.] Pilotage. Court of lodemanage: a court which sat at Dover for the appointment of the pilots of the Cinque Ports.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 403. His herberwe and his moone, his lodemenage.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. iii. Maryners that … expert be of their lodmanage.
1485. Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 24. Paid … John Henry lodesman for lodemanage of the same Ship … xs.
a. 1500. Piers of Fullham, 308, in Hazl., E. P. P., II. 13. Ȝef that he to long abyde To cast an anker at his tide, And faileth of his lodemonage.
1531. Charter-party, in R. G. Marsden, Sel. Pl. Crt. Adm. (1894), 37. All stowage lowaige wyndage pety lodmanage and averages acustomyd shalbe taken.
1616. Bullokar, Lodemanage, skill of nauigation.
1716. Act 3 Geo. I., c. 13 § 1. A very useful … Society or Fellowship, of Pilots of the Trinity-House of Dover [etc.], who have always had the sole Piloting and Load-manage of all Ships and Vessels from the said Places up the Rivers of Thames and Medway … Every Person must appear at a Court of Loadmanage, and be publickly examined … touching his Skill and Abilities in Pilotage, before he is to be admitted a Member of the said Society.
1755. Magens, Insurances, I. 72. To the petty, or accustomary Average … belong Lodemanage, Towage and Pilotage.
1873. J. Lewes, 1871 Census, 25. There was in former times a Court called the Court of Lodemanage, which seems to have been a branch of the Admiralty jurisdiction.
b. (See quot. 1607.)
1540. Act 32 Hen. VIII., c. 14 § 2. A pece of Flemmysh monney called an English for lodemanage.
1607. Cowell, Interpr., Lodemanage is the hire of a Pilot for conducting of a ship from one place to another.
