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King's dues
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:30:06 +0000
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I got an OPR image of my G-G-G-G Grandparent's marriage in Channelkirk,
Berwickshire on 27th October 1788. It says :
"Donald McBain and Margaret Grant were married here and paid the King's
dues."
Can anyone explain what was meant by the King's dues, please?
Hugh Watkins...
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a tax
with an apostrophe gets beteresults
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
What knight–errant ever paid poll-tax, duty, queen's pin–money, king's
dues, toll or ferry?
Anglo-Saxon Laws
(From English Historical Documents Volume 1, General Editor David C.
Douglas; New York, Oxford University Press, 1955.)
tax on land
"The
commissioners are not in the least concerned with details about ploughs and
ploughlands merely as such; their interest is entirely centred in a
possible increase of the king's dues from each manor surveyed. But it is
well to remember this fact, for it throws most serious difficulties in the
way o£ any estimate of the agricultural condition of England in the
eleventh century." re Domesday
later on coal
Hugh W
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