Lexicographical Neighbors of Merchets
Literary usage of Merchets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chaucer and His England by George Gordon Coulton (1908)
"... prevents a man from taxing even his horse beyond its powers; but there is
definite evidence that merchets and heriots were no mere theoretical grievance ..."
2. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"Again, as the lord is wont to be content with the customary services, heriots,
merchets and so forth of his villeins and to tallage them only at regular ..."
3. The Index Library by British Record Society (1908)
"The pleas and perquisites of the court, with the heriots and merchets, are worth
by the year 13^. ^d. Sum of the sums of the whole, £20 6s. u\d., ..."
4. Publications by Spalding Club, Aberdeen, John Spalding (1852)
"The Bishop seems also to have paid him a certain ' cane' or rent. He had, besides,
an equal share with the Bishop in the ' merchets' and ..."
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