A fine paid by the tenants of some manors to the lord for a license to marry a daughter. Cowell. Or, perhaps, for the lord’s omitting the custom of marcheta, (q. v.)
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A fine paid by the tenants of some manors to the lord for a license to marry a daughter. Cowell. Or, perhaps, for the lord’s omitting the custom of marcheta, (q. v.)