WROTH MONEY

Domain	Definition
Literature	Wroth Money or ~~~Wroth Silver. Wroth Silver. Money paid to the lord in lieu of castle guard for military service; a tribute paid for killing accidentally some person of note; a tribute paid in acknowledgment of the tenancy of unenclosed land. Dugdale, in his History of Warwick-shire, says:- "There is a certain rent due unto the lord of this Hundred (i.e. of Knightlow, the property of the Duke of Buccleuch), called wroth-money, or warth-money, or swarff-penny ... Denarii vice-comiti vel aliis castellanis persoluti ob castrorum proesidium vel excubias agendas (Sir Henry Spelman: Glossary). The rent must be paid on Martinmas Day, in the morning at Knightlow Cross, before sunrise. The party paying it must go thrice about the cross and say, `The wrath-money,' and then lay it [varying from 1d. to 2s. 3d.] in a hole in the said cross before good witnesses, or forfeit a white bull with red nose and ears. The amount thus collected reached in 1892 to about 9s., and all who complied with the custom were entertained at a substantial breakfast at the Duke's expense, and were toasted in a glass of rum and milk." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: WROTH MONEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-m-n-o-o-r-t-w-y"
	-1 letter: moneywort.
	-2 letters: hometown, honewort, theonomy, townhome.
	-3 letters: hormone, montero, moorhen, mothery.
	-4 letters: enroot, etymon, hooter, hornet, mentor, mooter, mother, nother, rhyton, theory, thorny, thoron, throne, thrown, towery, worthy.
	-5 letters: enorm, entry, henry, heron, homer, homey, honer, honey, honor, hooey, hooty, horny, hymen, metro, money, monte, month, moony, moory, moron, motey, mothy, motor, mower, nohow, north.
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