MRP: Commercial glossary
C17th commercial glossary
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19/08/11, CSG: Created page
This page is at an early stage of preparation. It is a research tool, not a finished product
Overview
This page provides a glossary to commercial terminology found in seventeenth century primary documents. Legal terms of commercial importance are to be found in the companion legal glossary.
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Aulnage
Borsholder
Copyhold
Court Leet and baron
Long hundred: 120 (e.g. "(referring to the Act of 1533 which made it illegal to keep flocks over 2400 sheep) if any person hath or doth keep above the number of two thousand sheep, besides lambs of one year's age..." This is 2400, not 2000. (Beresford, M.W., The poll tax and census of sheep, 1549, Agricultual History Review, vol. ?, p. 12)
Quit rent
Subsidy
