quit-rents

These allotments will be free of all fines, taxes, quit-rents, and other acknowledgments, for the space of ten years; but after the expiration of that period, will be subject to an annual quit-rent of one shilling for every fifty acres.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

It is esteemed one of the largest and most wealthy of our academical corporations, which may be compared to the Benedictine abbeys of Catholic countries; and I have loosely heard that the estates belonging to Magdalen College, which are leased by those indulgent landlords at small quit-rents and occasional fines, might be raised, in the hands of private avarice, to an annual revenue of nearly thirty thousand pounds.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

Its annual revenue was about �0,000 in the forties, derived from quit-rents and a local hut tax of 10s. a year, and from this revenue it had to maintain about 4,000 miles of roads, construct and maintain over 1,000 dipping tanks, pay the salaries of agricultural demonstrators, maintain agricultural schools, and pay for medical services.

South Africa: The Peasants Revolt 1964

[7] The parliamentary grants for the civil establishment of the provinces of Nova Scotia, Georgia, and East and West Florida, amount to _one million twelve thousand eight hundred and thirty-one pounds two shillings and eight-pence half-penny_, as the following account shews; -- and notwithstanding this vast expence, the king has _not_ received any quit-rents from these provinces.

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 Great Britain. Board of Trade

Deprived of their quit-rents, and not having resources for the payment of wages on an adequate scale, supposing that labour was obtainable on reasonable terms, the landholders fell back upon the only expedients that remained to them.

The Customs of Old England

Colonel Nicholson was the first Governor of Virginia who directed prosecutions for arrears of quit-rents, beginning with Colonel

Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson

Small parcels of land are granted away every court for not being planted or seated according to law, but no land has at any time been seized to the King's use for not paying of quit-rents.

Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson

Government is to be _exempted_ from the _expence_ of supporting the colony, and the king will receive his quit-rents, _neat and clear_ of all deductions, (which deductions in the _old_ colonies are at least 20 per centum) as will more particularly appear by a _state_ of the king's quit-rents annexed hereto.

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 Great Britain. Board of Trade

Have any parcels of land been seized for the King's use, for want of planting or failure to pay quit-rents?

Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson

When my old master saw him, a little before his death, he shook him by the hand, and wished him joy of the estate which was falling to him, desiring him only to make a good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate.

The Coverley Papers Various