Middle English Dictionary Entry
tunk n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tunk n. Also tung. |
| Etymology | MWel. tunke (cp. Wel. twnc); the word could also be construed as Wel. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A food rent or payment in kind rendered to the king by Welsh customary tenants, a money payment substituted for the foodstuffs owed; ~ pounde, money paid in lieu of payment in kind.
Associated quotations
- [ (1301) Pipe R.Chs.in LCRS 92197 : De eisdem pro Redditu Assise euisdem Comoti qui vocatur Wallice Tunke de terminis Nativitatis..Summa xviij li. x s. j d. ]
- (1303) Acc.Chester in LCRS 5920 : [Assized rent of the same Commote, called] Tunk [for the term of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist..6 l. 16 s. 10 d.].
- (1311) *Inq.P.M.(C) Edw.II File 22 m.23 [OD col.] : Idem Comes..habuit lx s., tan de liberis quam de natiuis Pro quadam custuma que vocatur Tung.
- (1311) Inquis.PM Edw.II5.158 : [Rent of assize, with a custom called] tuncpound.
- (1354-5) Doc.Denbigh in PRSM 1639 : [Allowed] tunk [and custom of butter from 2] gavels [of land in Llechtalhaerun in the lord's hands for lack of service of the tenants, 20/10].
- a1400(1334) Doc.in Vinogradoff Survey Denbigh7 : Quelibet istarum xj gavellarum reddit de Tung' per annum..xij denarios et pro pastu famulie Principis per annum ij s. v d. q.