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Author: William Coleman
Email: WVCOLEMAN at CSTPC dot COM
Date: 2004-11-10 11:55:05
Subject: Bosworth/Toller, page b0309, entry 23
This is a margin comment on: Bosworth/Toller, page b0309, entry 23
my understanding is that "forfang" also referred, in old english law, to taking provisions at a market or fair before the royal purveyors took their share.