| 单词 | blench ferme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblench ferme a. Blanch, Sc. blench; more fully blanch farm, blench ferme [Old French blanche ferme] ; according to Spelman and Coke, Rent paid in silver, instead of service, labour, or produce; in Scottish writers extended to a merely nominal quit-rent, not only of money, as a silver penny, but of other things, as a white rose, pair of gloves, pair of spurs, etc. paid in acknowledgement of superiority. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > nominal peppercorn1577 peppercorn rent1582 blanch farm1598 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 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 36 Frie tennents, haldand their lands, be blenshe ferme. 1627 Spelman 232 Firma alba, ea est quae argento penditur, non pecude.] a1634 E. Coke 2nd Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1642) 19 Redditus albi, White rents, blanch farmes, or rents, vulgarly and commonly called quit rents..called white rents, because they were paid in silver, to distinguish them from work-days, rent cummin, rent corn, etc. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 42. 1864 Glasgow Daily Her. 24 Sept. Changing the tenure of the castle..to free blench farm, for payment of a penny silver, if asked only. < as lemmas |
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