Middle English Dictionary Entry
shilling-worth n.
Entry Info
| Forms | shilling-worth n. Also sillingworth, silin-. |
| Etymology | From shilling n. & worth n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A quantity (of goods or land) valued at a shilling; also, an amount (of rent or income) equal to a shilling.
Associated quotations
- a1325 *Rwl.Statutes [OD col.] (Rwl B.520)lf.31b : Þat non ne sal ben i don..in to ani Iurees þat hath lasse þan a Hundred sillingworth of londe.
- (1423) RParl.4.200b : Also a subsidie of tonage, and poundage, of the said Alienes..of every tonne of Wyn iii s., and of every twenty shelyngworth of other Merchandise comyng into the Roialme, or goyng oute by wey of Merchandise, xii d.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)612/37 : Solidatus: a shyllyngworth.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.94/13 : I, Henry Doylly, ȝafe..to þe church of Seynte marye of Oseney..a hundred shelyngworth of Rente ȝerely.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.168/18 : Hugh had i-made to hym In Eschaunge for the foresaide tenementes to þe valour of An c silynworth of londe in A certeyne place.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)87/26 : The saide Iohn and Robert shold pay euery yere..iiij shillyngworth [L solidatas] of Cakys specially I-assigned to the forsaid abbesse and Covente.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)158/5 : Nicholas muton & Marye hys wyfe..grauntyde in-to perpetuall almys..to þe churche of Godestowe & to the mynchons þere..ij shelynge worthe of rent in thormerton with her dowhter aliȝ, yerly to be payde att whytsontyde, of a yerde londe þe whyche Robert cheppe helde.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)566/20,28 : The kyng..graunted..that they myght yeve..to the same Abbesse and Mynchons v mesis, viij yerdis lond, ij shillyngworth and ij penyworthe of rente..in partie of satisfaccion of an hundred shillyngworth of lond and of tenementis.