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QUEEN-G

Volume 15 · 83 words · 1797 Edition

QUEEN-Gold, is a royal duty or revenue belonging to every queen of England during her marriage to the king, payable by persons in this kingdom and Ireland, on divers grants of the king by way of fine or oblation, &c. being one full tenth part above the entire fines, on pardons, contracts, or agreements, which becomes a real debt to the queen, by the name of aurum reginae, upon the party's bare agreement with the king for his fine, and recording the same.