The payment of a rent, tax, duty, or annuity.
A gale is the right to open and work a mine within the Hundred of St. Briavel’s, or a stone quarry within the open lands of the Forest of Dean. The right is a license or interest in the nature of real estate, conditional on the due payment of rent and observance of the obligations imposed on the galee. It follows the ordinary rules as to the devolution and conveyance of real estate. The galee pays the crown a rent known as a “galeage rent,” “royalty,” or some similar name, proportionate to the quantity of minerals got from the mine or quarry. Sweet.