| 单词 | penny mail |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny mail ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > small money payment penny mail1454 1454 Charter Edinb. Reg. House No. 335 In the tyme of payment rynande of penymall at Wyt-sunday and Martymes as wynt be evyn porcionis. 1491 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 146/2 Þe said James allegiis þat he has þe said landis in tak for penny male alanerly. a1586 in J. Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems (1786) 321 Sum with deir ferme ar hirreit haill, That wount to pay bot penny maill. 1593 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1936) XI. 15 [He will be worth thirty two chalders of victual] attour other penny male and gressumes. 1709 E. Henderson Ann. Dunfermline (1879) 383 The great trouble and..expense the magistrates and thesaurer are in in yearly collecting the penny mealls and annualls payable..out of the burgage lands. < as lemmas |
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