Definition

• Money paid for synodals, a tribute due to the bishop or archdeacon at Easter.

  John Wyclif refers to the custom, in a tract written circa 1380, and reprinted in his Works (edit. 1880, p. 249), thus: "And whanne bischopis & here officcris comen & fej-nen to visite . . .wrecchid curatis ben nedid to festen him richely & geue procuracie & synage. "

Source

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

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