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1189 in J. E. Jackson Inquisition Manors of Glastonbury Abbey (1882) 22 Ricardus Kide..pro ij solidis et dono et herthselver.

1663 F. Philipps Antiq. Præ-emption & Pourveyance for King iii. 142 Harth-silver, Chimney-money, or Peter-pence, which some Mesne Lords do yet receive.

1796 A. Anstruther Rep. Cases Court of Exchequer I. 330 We have held this payment of two pence under the name of hearth-silver, &c. by every inhabitant householder to be a fixed and certain payment.

1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 507 The hearth-penny, hearth-silver, fumage (fuage)..originally in the nature of Peter-Pence, levied on every house.

1929 J. Birdsall in C. H. Taylor Anniv. Ess. Medieval Hist. 42 Church Scot, a rent paid to the lord of the manor, and hearth silver, identified by Miss Neilson with Peter's pence, are common on the Glastonbury manors.

2001 N. E. Stacy Surv. Estates Glastonbury Abbey 56 Known at Glastonbury also as hearthpenny or hearthsilver, it [sc. Peter's Pence] was payable by holders of customary tenements at the rate of a penny if married, a halfpenny if widowed.