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† sheriff's tooth Obs.
Forms: 3 schirrefstuthe, 4 shirrevestothe, 5 sheriffs-tooth, (8 sheriff-tooth).
[Cf. phrase ‘for one's own tooth’ in tooth n. 3.]
An annual impost (complained of in 1327–77 by Derbyshire tenants as a wrongful exaction) levied by the sheriff on each bovate of land within his county.
1298Yorksh. Inquisitions (Yks. Rec. Soc.) III. 84, 2s. for Waytemete and Schirrefstuthe. 1327–77Rolls of Parlt. II. 401/2 Une torcenouse prise q'est chescun an leve sur eux par Baillifs le Roy q'il appelent Shirrevestothe, c'est assavoir de chescune bove de terre sys deners. 1402in Leycester Hist. Antiq. (1673) 207, & reddendo per annum de Stothe, alias dictum Sheriffs-Tooth, septem Denarios. 1701Cowel's Interpr. (ed. Kennett) s.v., Per Sherif-tooth seems a tenure by the service or duty of providing Entertainment for the Sheriff at his County Turns or Courts. |