ROSES AS RENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16500, 30 July 1919, Page 6

ROSES AS RENT.

SOME QUAINT TENURES. King Georgo is the recipient of many queer rents, which, if of no intrinsic value, are certainly curious. They arc really surviving customs of feudal days. - The City of London’s rent for certain property off the Strand consists of two knives, six horseshoes, and bl nails, and it is paid to the Kang s Remembrancer at the Law Courts. The Royal Academy pays a peppercorn rent for the site of Burlington House. WHEN THE KING IS SEASICK. The owner of Copeland Manor holds his tenancy on condition that ho supports the King's head should the Sovereign be seasick in crossing from Dover to Whitsand. The Manor of Aylesbury is bound to provide the King with three geese if he goes there in summer, or with three cels if it is winter. It is also bound to provide clean straw for the King’s bedroom three times a year should his Majesty pass through Aylesbury. This obligation dates from the time when straw was a luxury for the bedroom floor. St. Glare's Grammar School, near Tower Bridge, is rented by roses. Originally the value of the land was £OO. Its worth is now £SOOO a year, but the rent is still a bunch of roses. WARS IN WALES.

Tbo ancient city of Chichester is bound to x j rovidc the King with “a string for his cross-bow.” whilst tho lord of Bryanston, in Dorset, used to hold his manor on condition that he provided a hov with a stringless bow and nnfeathored arrow whenever the King made war in Wales. The tenant of Bradley Great Uood, near Grimsby, is compelled to send a wild boar or .its equivalent in cash to the Mavor of Grimsby. As wild boars arc somewhat scarce nowadavs the money is usually sent.