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British Popular Customs

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

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Warwickshire

Dugdale, in his Antiquities of Warwickshire (1730, vol. i. p. 4), says:—There is a certain rent due unto the lord of the Hundred of Knightlow, called Wroth money or Warth money or Swarff penny, probably the same with Ward penny. This rent must be paid every Martinmas Day, in the morning, at Knightlow Cross, before the sun riseth: the party paying it must go thrice about the cross, and say “The Wrath money,” and then lay it in the hole of the said cross before good witness, for if it be not duly performed the forfeiture is thirty shillings and a white bull.

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