Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Smoke Farthings

An offering given to the priest at Whitsuntide, according to the number of chimneys in his parish.

“The Bishop of Elie hath out of everie parish in Cambridgeshire a certain tribute called ... smoke-farthings, which the churchwardens do levie according to the number of chimneys that be in a parish” —MSS. Baker, xxxix. 326.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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