Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
quit-rent .
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Examples
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But the "chief-rent," or "eric for kindly blood," did not suffice in the year 590 to satisfy
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Up to this time, the colonists had been bound only to furnish a contingent force, by land and sea, when the King of Ireland went to war, and to make them an annual present called "chief-rent."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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But the "chief-rent," or "eric for kindly blood," did not suffice in the year 590 to satisfy
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Up to this time, the colonists had been bound only to furnish a contingent force, by land and sea, when the King of Ireland went to war, and to make them an annual present called "chief-rent."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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FEU, FEW, _s. _ a possession held on payment of a certain yearly rent, the same as a chief-rent in England.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. Alexander Leighton 1837
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Time made this chief-rent permanent, and gave the tenant stability of title.
An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769
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Sir Thomas de Erdington held it of this lady, by a chief-rent, which was
An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769
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