quitrent

However, many proprietors continued to simply not pay their quitrent.

A willing to pay half his quitrent by serving as schoolmaster for five months of the year.

Quitrent of one shilling per 50 acres is specified in both these patents.

This meant that the proprietors were unable, or at least not willing, to pay the required quitrent to the Crown.

The permanent annual tax on each grant, called a quitrent, was one shilling, paid directly to the king or his representative.

By the order of Ivan the Terrible, the monastery became a collection facility for metayage, quitrent, and fodder.

Tom Christie earned the quitrent on his land by serving as the local schoolmaster, and seemed capable of keeping discipline on his own terms.

It was first attested in 1265 as Hungnod by the Papal Quitrent Register.

Proclamation on Conversion of Loan Places to Quitrent Tenure, 6 August 1813.

In 1787 the patroon had a survey and census taken in order to enroll squatters and collect the quitrent required of settlers on his lands.

The quitrent varied from time to time from a farthing to a halfpenny per acre, without regard to location, productivity or other consideration.

When William Penn left his Quaker colony in Pennsylvania, the people stopped paying quitrent, and any semblance of formal government evaporated.

Schutte was required to pay to "The Receiver General of Land Revenue" an annual quitrent of 50 Rix dollars.

At the same time, he imposed a quitrent, a the 12 days-corvée, and allowed the boyars a retinue of serfs (scutelnici) that were exempted from the state tax (and owed taxes only to their liege lord).

Quit rent, Quit-rent, or quitrent, in practically all cases, is now effectively but not formally a tax or land tax imposed on freehold or leased land by a higher landowning authority, usually a government or its assigns.

Since Ancient Planters who had paid their own passage were to receive the land free of quitrent, this shows that Richard and Isabella Pace did not pay their own passage but were brought at the London Company's expense, probably as Company employees.

Looking for a loyal and competent man willing to undertake the settlement of a large section of wild backcountry, Governor Tryon had offered Jamie a Royal grant of land just east of the Treaty Line, with no requirement of quitrent for a period of ten years.