单词 | table rent |
释义 | > as lemmastable rent ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > payment made for specific purpose > to bishops or prelates: for housekeeping expenses table rent1701 1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. Fff2v Table-Rents, Redditus ad mensam, rents paid to Bishops or Religious Prelates, reserv'd or appropriated to their Table or House-keeping. 1792 Gentleman's Mag. Suppl. 1188/2 Care was usually taken to reserve a sufficient quantity of land, so as amply to supply the house with provisions, out of which very considerable portions were not unfrequently let off to tenants at an annual rent, and were then..styled bordlands, the occupiers bordarii, and the rents bordland rents, and sometimes table rents. < as lemmas |
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