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† sharn-penny Obs.
In 2 sor-peni, schar-, schornpenny.
[f. sharn + penny.]
A payment of a penny yearly for each cow, which was due from the burgesses of Bury St. Edmunds to the Abbey as lord of the manor, in lieu of the profit which the Abbey would have obtained from the dung by observance of the manorial custom of folding the tenant's cattle on the lord's land.
c1200Deed of Abbot Sampson (Cart. S. Edm., MS. f. 247) in Kennett Cowel's Interpr., Facta est compositio..quod Præpositus ejusdem villæ dabit singulis annis..denarios pro faldagio vaccarum ipsius villæ quos nominabant scharpenny. 12..Cart. S. Edm. MS. f. 31, ibid., Burgensibus villæ S. Edmundi data est quitantia cujusdam consuetudinis quæ dicitur Schorn-penny..Solebat enim Cellerarius accipere unum denarium per annum de qualibet vacca hominum villæ pro exitu. 1200Chron. Joc. de Brakelonda (Camden) 73 Data eis alia quietantia cujusdam consuetudinis que dicitur sor-peni, pro iiij solidis. |