Cornage [fr. Cornu, Lat., a horn], a kind of tenure in grand serjeanty, the service of which was to blow a horn when any invasion of the Scots was perceived; and by this tenure many persons held their lands northward about the place commonly called Picts' Wall. This old service of horn-blowing was afterwards paid in money, and the sheriffs accounted for it under the title of Cornagium, Camd Brit. 609.
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