Meanings
- UKobsoleteuncountablelawA payment of corn to be offered in commutation of military service.
and from a rent called wardcorn one quarter, three bushels of barley worth fifteen shillings per year, at the value of five pence the bushel.
1989, George Feairheller Deiser, Year Books of Richard II - Volume 12, page 682 more examples
And that the aforesaid Abbess and convent and their successors, and all tenants, residents, and non-residents, and other residents aforesaid, […] be quit through our entire realm of England of all pannage, lestage, […] and of treasure to be drawn away, and of wardpeny, wardcorne, averpeny, hundredpeny, […] and of all such custom
1842, George Oliver, Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon, page 100The additional payment of grain as ‘wardcorn’ is a local peculiarity, and refers to some ancient military responsibilty^([sic]) upon the vill[agers].
2002, Mark Bailey, The English manor, c.1200-c.1500, page 226
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