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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… from Ellington and its hamlets when it ran; tallage, merchet, leyrwyte, poll-tax; wardship and marriage of his …
A History of the County of Hertford
… to hold their lands by reasonable reliefs without giving merchet for marrying their daughters, and without tallage, … been accustomed to tally their men at will, and to exact merchet. John de Horsindone and the others were undoubtedly …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… owed weekwork. All the abbey's villeins were liable to merchet, 205 leyrwite, 206 and similar payments, as for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of grain, and to pay toll on ale brewed, pannage of pigs, merchet, and aid. Single yardlands owed half that service. … 7 s. 4 d. or 8 s. 4 d. a yardland for all services except merchet. On the Vere manor there were two tenants in socage …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wood. The composition also fixed the rate of relief and merchet. A tenant entering upon possession of a customary … rent with an additional bonus of not more than 4 s. No merchet was payable for tenants' daughters married within the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… he might not acquire a free tenement, 100 and he must pay merchet on the marriage of his daughters. The first rule …
A History of the County of Bedford
… orders to do suit at his court, to pay tallage and merchet for their daughters and sisters, and could not be …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 3 boon works in harvest, had to mow and cart hay, and owed merchet, chevage, and heriot. The villeins were tallaged …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were exacted at Oddington. The Hundred Rolls show that merchet was paid, 119 and it is known that a tallage was …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… villeins paid the same, and tallage, rents of assize, merchet, leyrwite, pannage, 'wodepeny,' lovebones, barn …