单词 | sheriffs tooth |
释义 | † sheriff's toothn. Obsolete. An annual impost (complained of in 1327–77 by Derbyshire tenants as a wrongful exaction) levied by the sheriff on each bovate of land within his county. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > payments levied by sheriff hundred-penny1189 sheriff's tooth1298 shire-wyte1425 sheriff gloves1528 sheriff fee1603 1298 Yorksh. Inquisitions (Yks. Rec. Soc.) III. 84 2s. for Waytemete and Schirrefstuthe. 1327–77 Rolls of Parl. II. 401/2 Une torcenouse prise q'est chescun an leve sur eux par Baillifs le Roy q'il appelent Shirrevestothe, c'est assavoir de chescune bove de terre sys deners. 1402 in Leycester Hist. Antiq. (1673) 207 & reddendo per annum de Stothe, alias dictum Sheriffs-Tooth, septem Denarios. 1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) (at cited word) Per Sherif-tooth seems a tenure by the service or duty of providing Entertainment for the Sheriff at his County Turns or Courts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1298 |
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