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QUIT-RENT

Volume 17 · 48 words · 1823 Edition

(quietus redditus, i.e. "quiet rent") is a certain small rent payable by the tenants of manors, in token of subjection, and by which the tenant goes quiet and free. In ancient records it is called white rent, because paid in silver money, to distinguish it from rent-corn, &c.