wardcorn

Definitions

A payment of corn to be offered in commutation of military service.

UK, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“And that the aforesaid Abbess and convent and their successors, and all tenants, residents, and non-residents, and other residents aforesaid, […] be quit⟳ through our entire realm of England of all pannage, lestage, […] and of treasure to be drawn away, and of wardpeny, wardcorne, averpeny, hundredpeny, […] and of all such custom”

“and from a rent⟳ called wardcorn one quarter, three bushels of barley worth fifteen shillings per year, at the value of five pence the bushel.”

“The additional payment of grain as ‘wardcorn’ is a local peculiarity, and refers to some ancient military responsibilty^([sic]) upon the vill[agers].”

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