In the vicinity of Bogucharovo were large villages belonging to the crown or to owners whose serfs paid quitrent and could work where they pleased.
By "what was due from the Ryazan estate" Prince Vasili meant several thousand rublesquitrent received from Pierre's peasants, which the prince had retained for himself.
White rent, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent.
Law) Defn: One to whom a right of surface occupation is granted; one who pays quitrent for a house built upon another man's ground.
The amount of the quitrent in the Northern Neck was the same as elsewhere in Virginia--two shillings annually for 100 acres.
The first of these was the requirement for the annual quitrent of one shilling for fifty acres; but according to Randolph, the colonists "never pay a penny of quit-rent to the King for it, by which in strictness of law their land is forfeited.
Under agents Brent and Fitzhugh one exception occurred with the attempt in 1694 to double the quitrent and thereby maintain the same scale as was customary in Maryland at the time.
Reforms were proposed that would enhance the royal revenue by collection of the quitrent and would prevent the accumulation of large estates.
In 1639 additional provisions were stipulated by the Assembly to tighten the quitrent collection by requiring landholders upon summon by warrant to reveal their title and the size of their estates to commissioners of the county courts.
For planters settled before 1616 at the expense of the company, it seems that they would have been free of paying the quitrent only for a seven-year period which would have required compliance before dissolution of the company.
Ancient planters" who came to the colony at the company's expense would receive the same amount of land after a seven-year term of service but would be required to pay a quitrent of two shillings for every 100 acres.
He advertised for colonists, and began selling land at 100 pounds for five thousand acres and annually thereafter a shilling quitrent for every hundred acres.
The impression was therefore prevalent that no further quitrent would be demanded, more especially as payment was not exacted in the neighboring provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
I am exceedingly anxious to learn the fate of the quitrent bill.
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