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单词 reek penny
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reek penny
reek penny n. [compare Middle Low German rōkpenninc] Scottish and English regional (northern) (now historical) a tax paid to the clergy by each householder in a parish; cf. smoke-penny n. at smoke n. Compounds 3.
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1255 Memorandum Sherburn Hospital, Bishopton No. 4, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Rek(e De Rekepeni, v sol.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vi. l. 462 Þe reyk penny [a1530 Royal rekpenny] þai oysse to call In al landis þat payment.
1651 Mercurius Scoticus 18 Nov. in C. H. Firth Sc. & Commonw. (1895) 342 There were some of Edinburgh also about the collecting of the Reek penny for their relief, which was so much upon the pound of the House-Rents and Dues of every House that kindles fire there.
1832 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II II. 356 (note) The [Christmas] offering here [i.e. Bedlington] for communicants..is three-halfpence each; each family also pays one penny, under the name of smoke or reek penny.
1974 S. Dobson Geordie Dict. 52 Reek-penny, a modus formerly paid to the clergy in many parts of Northumberland and Durham for tithe of fire-wood.
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