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Roffens.p. 33.] [******* On the death of an alderman, a greater or lesser thane, there was a payment made to the king of his best arms; and this was called his heriot; but this was not of the nature of a relief.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John David Hume 1743

It is worth noting that in later times the heriot of an "ordinary thegn" (_medema þegn_) -- by which is meant apparently not a king's thegn but a man of the _twelfhynde_ class -- consisted of his horse with its saddle, &c. and his arms, or two pounds of silver as an equivalent of the whole.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

GODEFRIDUS-GOTRIC is credited with a third Saxon tribute, a heriot of

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

The mantel is that of Woden when he bears the hero over seas; the cock is a bird of sorcery the world over; the black fowl is the proper gift to the Underground powers -- a heriot really, for did not the Culture god steal all the useful beasts out of the underground world for men's use?

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

For instance, when the vassal died, his arms, horse, military equipment reverted as heriot to his master.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Of their articles he approved of two only, that demanding the right to choose their pastors and that denouncing the heriot or death-duty.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

The eleventh demands the abolition of the heriot, or inheritance-tax, by which the widow of a rustic was obliged to yield to her lord the best head of cattle or other valuable possession.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

XI deals with the right of heriot, or the death-tax imposed upon the widow or heir of a tenant.

Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation 1904

Cardiff: generally they owed no definite service to the Lord (except homage, and sometimes a heriot at death), but on failure of heirs the estate lapsed to the chief Lord.

Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures 1904

But the fine paid on the inheritance of their land was less definitely restricted in amount, and heriot was more universally and more regularly collected.

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904