SMOKE-Farthings. The pentecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese when they made their procession to the mother or cathedral church, came by degrees into a standing annual rent called smoke-farthings.

SMOKE-Silver. Lands were helden in some places by the payment of the sum of 6d. yearly to the sheriff, called smoke-silver (Par. 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 (Twelf. Hist. Vindicat. 77.)—The bishop of London anno 1444 issued out his commission, Ad levandum le smoke-farthings, &c.