单词 | penny-rent |
释义 | penny-rentn. Now historical. Rent paid or received in money; periodic payment in cash; income, revenue. Also: a quit-rent of a penny. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] renta1225 winningsc1380 profita1382 profity1432 revenue1433 fruitc1450 luck?a1475 improvement1478 apports1481 penny-rent1502 importance1505 filthy lucre1526 rentally1534 entrataa1538 a quick return1583 incoming1596 entratec1599 advenue1600 coming in1600 income1601 intrade1604 intrado1609 ingate1621 audit1625 increment1631 indraught1633 velvet1901 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in money penny-rent1502 white rent1562 album1677 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in money > instead of services penny-farm1355 quit-rent1420 blanch farm1598 penny-rent1611 canon1643 1502 Will of John Westburn (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/13) f. 169 In Penny-rent. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Denier de seruice, Pennie rent: a quit or chiefe rent: or, the reseruation of a single pennie in lieu of all other rents and seruices (homage excepted). a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) iii. sig. E1 What Ioynture can he make you, Plutarchs Moralls, Or so much peenny [sic] rent in the small pots [sic]. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 344 The Pensions were but bare Penny-Rent, whilst Abbey-Lands were lowly rated farre beneath their true valuation. 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master iii. i Though he..has two thousand five hundred seventy-three pounds sterling, twelve shillings and twopence a year penny-rent. 1729 Season. Rem. Trade 24 This drains from thence the Penny~rents of most of the great Estates of that Kingdom [Ireland]. 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison 31 Mar.–1 Apr. He proposes a jointure of £1200 a year penny-rents, and 400 guineas a year for her [sc. Miss Mansfield's] private purse. 1803 Times 11 Jan. 4/3 One undivided seventh part of the freehold buildings..producing, on an average for six years past, a net penny rent of 33l. 11s. 4d. 1933 C. Stephenson Borough & Town 101 (note) Reference to this..tribute is found in the consuetudo owed by all burgess..at Colchester..and Hereford;..in the penny rents paid by settlers in the new borough of Norwich [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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