“smoke、farthing”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

smoke-farthing

释义

ˈsmoke-farthing Hist.
[smoke n. 2 b.]
An offering made at Whitsuntide by the householders of a diocese to the cathedral church; also, a hearth-tax (see quot. 1765).
1444[see Lincoln¹ 1].1524Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading (ed. Nash) 22 To the Official for smoke farthyngs, iiij^s jd.1575in North St. Martin's, Leicester 144 For peterpence or smoke farthynges sometyme due to the Anthecriste of roome, xd.1609in W. Money Hist. of Newbury (1887) 529 P[ai]d for Pentecostalles, otherwise called smoke farthings.1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, Smoke-farthings, the Pentecostals, or Customary Oblations offered by the Inhabitants within any Diocess, when they made their Processione to the Mother or Cathedral Church.1765Blackstone Comm. I. 323 As early as the conquest mention is made in domesday book of fumage or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings; which were paid by custom to the king for every chimney in the house.1857Toulmin Smith Parish 503 An ‘Ale’ held at the time of paying the ‘Smoke-farthing’ or Wax-silver.1876[see fumage¹].

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