A customary fine paid to the lord upon the alienation of land.

Feudal Law. The service or payment rendered by a tenant to an owner. rare. Now historical.

A feudal ‘service’, being a form of rent fixed according to the number of horned cattle; cornage.

A customary charge or capitation fee paid by each member of a tithing (tithing, n.1 2).

? money paid in lieu of ‘average.’ (Cf. 1206 at average, n.1)

some kind of feudal impost.

Some kind of manorial dues.

A special or supplementary payment or service rendered by a tenant to a lord. Chiefly attributive, esp. designating such a payment or service, as fils…

= horngeld, n.

a customary charge or capitation fee paid by each member of a community; cf. tithing penny, n.

A form of tallage.

apparently a due paid by bondmen at Christmas.

(in Meldreth, Cambridgeshire) a type of annual tax or customary charge (see quots.).

A service of providing transportation for goods or supplies, owed by a tenant to a landlord; a payment made in lieu of this service. Also more…

Apparently a compositorial error for Werkseluer (variant of worksilver, n.). Compare week-work silver n. at week-work, n. compounds.

A monetary contribution paid to a lord by a feudal vassal. Now historical.

Some kind of service due by tenants to the feudal superior. Explained in the Law Dictionaries, since Sir J. Skene, as ‘service done by the tenant…

an unpaid service due to a castle from neighbouring owners or tenants; see boon, n.1 6.

A seignorial due derived from vineyards.

A casual or incidental charge or payment; spec. in Scots Law, a payment due from a tenant or vassal on the occurrence of certain casual events. ca…

? = frith-silver n. at frith, n.1 compounds.

A casual or incidental charge or source of income; = casualty, n. 4.

a fine or levy imposed as punishment for the killing of a white hart in Blackmore Vale in Dorset (see quot. 1658).

Cornage, horngeld.

payments made by vassals when released from the obligation of homage.

A payment made for the right to plough or sow land used for pannage.

? some feudal payment (see quots.).

A common fine, paid yearly by the residents and tenants of a manor to the lord or the hundred, pro certo Letæ, for the certain keeping of the Leet.

? = averpenny n. (Halliwell suggests: ‘A custom or rent so called, originating from the cattle, or avers of the tenants of the soil.’)

A payment made to the superior by one holding land in socage. rare.