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KNIGHTLOW HILL

Volume 9 · 105 words · 1797 Edition

or CROSS, which gives name to a hamlet in Warwickshire, stands in the road from Coventry to London, at the entrance of Dunsmore Heath. About 40 towns in this hamlet, which are specified by Dugdale, are obliged, on the forfeiture of 30s. and a white bull, to pay a certain rent to the lord of the hamlet, called wroth-money, or swarf-penny; which must be deposited every Martinmas-day in the morning at Knighton this crofs before sun-rise; when the party paying it must go thrice about the crofs, and say the wroth-money, and then lay it in the hole of the said crofs before good witnes.