"PEPPERCORN RENTAL”
Radnor House, at Twickenham, oil the Thames, between Strawberry Hill and Pope s Villa, has been preserved as the result of a wish expressed by the Queen. It is a treasure of architectural hisiD4j.\ The house will probably Ibe leased at a “peppercorn rental. ’ To-day this signifies a nominal rent, but in the Middle Ages spices cost a great deal and the obligation to pay a pound of pepper every rent day gave housewives as much worry as payment in paper money does to-day. Strawberry Hill is so called because Horace Walpole grew strawberries a.t his villa in the district in the 17o0’s. Pope’s Villa has nothing to do with Alexander Pope, except that it was built on the site of a house originally inhabited by Pope. It was erected by an unknown tea merchant less than a hundred years ago.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13858, 17 May 1938, Page 2
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143"PEPPERCORN RENTAL” Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13858, 17 May 1938, Page 2
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