plough-alms

English

Noun

plough-alms (uncountable)

  1. (historical) Alms levied on ploughs (often on those used between certain dates) or ploughlands.
    • 1647, Nath[aniel] Bacon, “Of Church-mens Maintenance amongst the Saxons”, in An Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England. The First Part. From the First Times till the Reign of Edward the Third, London: […] Mathew Walbancke […], →OCLC, page 32:
      Another Income aroſe from the Plough, and under the name of Plough-almes: at the firſt it vvas granted by Edvvard the Elder generally, and the valevv vvas a penny upon every plough; and in after times it vvas ordained to be payd fifteen daies after Eaſter.

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