单词 | king's customs |
释义 | > as lemmasking's customs a. In the names of various offices, institutions, or other groups, with the sense ‘of, belonging to, or in the service of the king’, ‘royal’ (cf. queen n. Compounds 3a), as king's customs, king's taxes, king's soldiers, etc.King's Counsel, king's highway, King's Messenger, king's peace, King's Remembrancer, King's Speech, king's ship: see the second element.In quot. OE designating Old English ūtwaru, lit. ‘out-defence’, services (i.e. taxes) due to the king, originally including feudal military obligations (in contradistinction to inwaru, services due to the landlord). ΚΠ OE Laws: Norðleoda Laga (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 460 Gif ceorlisc man geþeo, þæt he hæbbe v hida landes to cynges utware. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 777 Ðis wæs don on þe cininges tune Freoricburna hatte. 1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §51. m. 4 The seid merchantz aliens..sende her money overe the see by soche eschaunges: and so the kynges custume is colourably consealed and enbesiled. 1439–40 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1439 §63. m. 1 Many souldeours..have mustred and entred in of record the kyngs souldeours, afore his commissioners. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth lxii. f. lxxxviv In the mean tyme Marius whiche was in assaut of the kynges towre coude nat perfourme his enterprise. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iv. iv. 458/1 An Auditor or receauer of the kinges customes. 1654 J. Cleveland Idol of Clownes (new ed.) sig. A3v The liberty of the free-born people (pilled, and fleyed by the Kings taxes). 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 153 There would be ten thousand pound per annum advance in the Kings Customs yearly. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxxv. 231 I have,..paid scot and lot, and the king's taxes. 1775 C. Chauncy Let. 18 July in R. Price Corr. (1983) I. 218 All communication between the King's troops and the Country is cut off. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 427/1 A magistrate and receiver of the king's taxes. 1895 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 9 89 For the king's customs and Southampton dues fifteen shillings. 1905 W. Watson Ballad Semmerwater in Poems I. 193 King's tower and queen's bower. 1959 R. R. Palmer Age of Democratic Revol. I. vii. 197 Fighting between the King's troops and the people of Massachusetts began..in April 1775. 2013 P. Andreas Smuggler Nation ii. 29 Resentment toward the king's customs became a unifying cause in the otherwise fragmented..American colonies. < as lemmas |
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