SMOKE-SILVER. Lands were holden in some places by the payment of the sum of 6d. yearly to the sheriff, called smoke-silver. Pat. 4. Edw. VI. Smoke-silver and smoke-penny are to be paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood: and in some manors formerly belonging to religious houses, there is still paid as appendant to the said manors, the ancient Peter-pence, by the name of smoke-money. Twisd. Hist. vindicat. 77.—The bishop of London, anno 1444, issued out his commission, Ad levandum le smoke-farthings, &c.