Middle English Dictionary Entry
stuth n.
Entry Info
| Forms | stuth n. Also stuthe, stud, stothe, stotz, stouth, (?error, in cpd.) -steth & (errors) stuch, scotz. |
| Etymology | ODan. stuth & MLG stūt, stūdth tax; the form scotz perh. by confusion with ME scot n.(2). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A customary rent [see quots.]; shir-reve ~, ?a payment to a sheriff for the expenses of his office [the combs. shir-reve toth & shir-reves teth s.v. shir-reve n. (d) should be changed to shir-reve stuth and shir-reve steth].
Associated quotations
- (1236) Cart.Burton in WSAS 566 : Stud.
- (1280) Cart.Burton in WSAS 585 : Stuch.
- (1298) Inquis.Yks.in YASRS 3184 : [2 s. for] Waytemete [and] Schirrefstuthe.
- (1348) Inquest Lan.in LCRS 70184 : [27 s. 4 d..for the custom] del scotz, [to wit for each oxgang 16 d.].
- (1348) Inquest Lan.in LCRS 70187 : [6 1/2 d. in decay of the rent and] le stotz [of a rood and a 6th part of an oxgang of land].
- (1349-50) Acc.Chester in LCRS 59133 : [A certain rent accustomed and collected in the five hundreds of the county of Chester at the feast of St. Martin, and called] Shirreuesteth.
- (1349-50) Acc.Chester in LCRS 59145 : [For 22 s. 1 1/2 d. received of a certain custom called] Stuth [arising from carts carrying turf or brushwood to be sold].
- (1349-50) Acc.Chester in LCRS 59146 : [A certain custom called] Stuth [..for each tenant according as he has pans..for making salt].
- (1350-51) Acc.Chester in LCRS 59171 : [Customary rent..called] Shirreuesteth.
- (c1350) RParl.2.401b : Les gents sont grantment grevez & empoveriz par une torcenouse prise q'est chescun an leve sur eux par Baillifs le Roy, q'il appelent Shirrevestothe, c'est assavoir de chescune bove de terre sys deners.
- (c1358) Doc.in Der.ANHSJ 2284 : [And the same John and other of his neighbours of the same tenure and condition shall give to the lord from the feast of S. Michael vj to xiij s. iiij d., which is called] Le Stouth.
- a1625(1346) Inquest Lan.in LCRS 7083 : [There are 20 1/2 ox gangs of land there, each of which renders yearly, at the terms of Christmas, Lady Day, Midsummer and Michaelmas, 2 s., and for] Le Scotz [16 d. t. Michaelmas].
- 1684(1470) Peter of Blois Croy.Chron.Contin.115 [OD col.] : Solvit..gerson Domino & Ourlop..& Stoth & alia servitia & auxilia quæ plenius in Cartarius Monasterii describuntur.