1674 W. Cunningham (1887) 27 Being a miller [he] pays nothing till the ordinary terme of mill rents, which is Lammas of the succeeding year.
1894 R. S. Ferguson 165 Mills..still pay mill-rents to this day.
1994 (Nexis) 7 Aug. 8 You must excuse the metaphors for you will not find one in the 207 published volumes of the Victoria History. Mill rents yes, and the profits of fisheries.