单词 | hearth-penny |
释义 | hearth-pennyn. Now historical. An annual tax formerly levied on householders; = Peter's penny n. 1. Cf. Rome-scot n. 1.Originally apparently paid by every free householder, later developing into a tenurial tax (cf. quots. 1189, 1235-52, 1393).The precise sense in quot. lOE1 is unclear; in this example payment is exacted on Ascension Day, the date for which other sources prescribe the payment of plough-alms n., whereas Peter's Penny was typically due at Petermas (cf. quot. OE1). Perhaps cf. smoke-farthing n.In quot. 1660 translating quot. OE2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > payment to specific person > to the pope hearth-pennyOE Rome pennyOE Rome-scotOE hearth-silver1189 Peter's penny1252 OE Wulfstan Homily: To Eallum Folce (Corpus Cambr. 419) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 116 Utan gelæstan ælce geare ure sulhælmessan fiftene niht on ufan eastran.., and seo ælc heorðpening [OE Tiber. A.iii rompenig] agifen be Petres mæssedæg to ðam biscopstole ælce geare. OE Laws of Edgar (Corpus Cambr.) ii. iv. 198 Sy ælc heorðpænig [OE Nero A.i heorðpæning, lOE Harl. heorþpening] agifen be Petres mæssedæg. lOE Laws: Rectitudines (Corpus Cambr.) iii. §4. 446 Sylle his heorðpænig on halgan Ðunresdæg, ealswa ælcan frigean men gebyreð. lOE Rec. Dues, Taunton in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 236 Cirhsceattas, & burhgerihtu, heorðpenegas, & hundred penegas, [etc.]. 1189 in J. E. Jackson Inquisition Manors of Glastonbury Abbey (1882) 86 Debet dare..et obolum et hertpeni. 1235–52 in C. J. Elton Rentalia et Custumaria (1891) 76 Edit[ha]..reddit xijd. de Gabulo et viijd. ad lardarium et hertpeni. 1393 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/254/21) m. 2 Dicti tenentes tenent de Rege vt de capite Reddendo vicecomiti Berk' nomine Regis annuatim in festo sancti Martini vnum denarium vocatum herthpenny, summa xxx d. per annum. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 159 in Justice Vindicated Let the Hearth-penny be paid before the Feast of S. Peter. 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 357 Those who believe they [sc. the coins] were Peter-Pence, Rome-Scot, Rome Feoh, or Hearth-Penny, I think are under a Mistake. 1889 Archæol. Rev. Aug. 43 It was called Rome-scot, Rome-penny, Hearth-penny. 1978 W. M. Spackman Armful of Warm Girl 34 His own..yeoman forebears hadn't been amerced with..plough-alms and smoke-farthings and hearthpenny on Holy Thursday. 2005 F. Tinti Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon Eng. ii. 45 Edgar's second code..is also the first law to demand the payment of the hearth-penny. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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