Chiefrie

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small rent paid to the lord paramount. historical, obsolete

    "There are a thousand instances of this all over England, in reserved rents applied to hospitals, in old chiefries, and even among the clergy themselves, in those payments which, I think, they call a modus."

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"There are a thousand instances of this all over England, in reserved rents applied to hospitals, in old chiefries, and even among the clergy themselves, in those payments which, I think, they call a modus."

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