| 单词 | the farm of the shire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe farm of the shire (or county, city, borough, etc.) a. spec. (British History). A fixed sum paid to the Crown by the civic governance of a town or city, or by the sheriff of a county, in lieu of all of the taxes, rents, tolls, etc., to be collected within its limits; the revenue generated from this. Frequently in the farm of the shire (or county, city, borough, etc.). Cf. fee-farm n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] farma1325 ad valoremc1769 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun] > yearly > payable by town or country farma1325 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xv. 72 Alle schirreuene, fermurs, baillifs of fraunchises..so comen ate foreseide termes, ant bringen mid hoem plenerliche þe foreseide fermes, ant rentes, ant issues, ant paien hoem ate eschekere. 1327 Rolls of Parl.: Edward III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1327 §64. m. 21 The said Robert gathered .iv.xx all the fermes and issues of the said towne for a longe tyme before hee made him the said Alisander acquainted therewith. 1447–8 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 115 (MED) The Shirivys..accompted of the issuys and proffitis therof yn the Kynges Excheker as parcell of the ferme of the shire. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 276 The King..raised the vallews of the farme of Counties granted to the Sheriffs. 1861 H. T. Riley tr. Liber Albus 39 One half of the ferm of the City due to the King. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439 He [sc. the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire. 2003 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 133 111 He is mentioned in the State Papers on various occasions between 1287 and 1291 as paying the farm of the city of Waterford to the exchequer. < as lemmas |
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