Definition

• Sir W. Jones, in his Reports , 1675 (280), states that this "is a service now turned into money, which is paid in respect that anciently the tenants used to wash their lord's sheep."

  Hibbert, in A Description of the Shetland Islands , 1822 (p. 198), has the following: "The compliment of an ox and twelve sheep from every parish had... been granted to the Earl of Bothwell. It was... converted into a perpetual tribute, under the name of ox and sheep silver."

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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