| 单词 | lark silver |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslark silver lark silver n. now historical and rare (in Meldreth, Cambridgeshire) a type of annual tax or customary charge (see quots.).For a possible semantic motivation, see quot. 1969. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > other customary or feudal dues land-cheapc848 manredlOE horngeldc1170 tithing penny1192 averpenny1253 wattle-silver1263 faldfee?a1300 filstinga1300 horn-pennyc1320 common finea1325 wrongeld1340 yule-waitingc1380 lark silver1382 carriagec1400 week-silver1430 aida1475 average1489 castle-boon15.. winage1523 casualty?1529 fry money1530 casualityc1568 white hart silver1594 hornage1611 issues of homage1646 lef-silver1660 frith-silver1669 cert-money1670 aver-silver1847 socage1859 1382 Inquisition Post Mortem (P.R.O.: C 136/20/3) Et tres solid' annual' redditus voc' larksyluer ad festum natal' domini in Mellereth'. 1635 J. Layer in Notes & Queries (1900) 12 May 376/1 The lete is of Clare, of fee, and ye townsmen paid..3s. per annum for larkesilver, but what the meaning of it is, I know not. 1900 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 5 376 The Court Leet at Meldreth has not been held for centuries, but the ‘larksilver’..[is] still paid by the parish constable to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. 1969 E. Porter Cambridgeshire Customs & Folklore 399 The Lark Silver was money paid by the villagers in lieu of the presentation they made in early times at Christmas of 100 larks to the Earl of Clare. 1982 A. P. Baggs et al. in A. P. M. Wright Hist. County of Cambr. & Isle of Ely VIII. (online ed., www.british-history.ac.uk) The honor of Clare had a leet in Meldreth... Meldreth owed 3s. lark silver to the honor,..still paid in the 18th and 19th centuries despite occasional protests. In..1960..it was extinguished. < as lemmas |
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