Hist. Also corruptly winter-, wynter-, wit(t)erden(e, witeredden. [OE. wíterǽden (used in Bæda’s Hist., III. viii. in the gen. sense of punishment), f. wíte WITE sb.2 + rǽden -RED.] A fine (erron. explained by antiquaries as a royal imposition or aid).
688–95. Laws Ine, § 50. Nah he þær nane witerædenne.
855. (MS. 12th cent.) Grant of Ethelwulf, in Birch, Cartul. Sax., II. 84. Ut sit tuta … ab omnibus secularibus servitutibus, necnon regalibus tributis majoribus et minoribus, sive taxationibus quod nos dicimus Witereden [v.rr. Winterden, Witeredden].
1650. Elderfield, Civil Right of Tythes, 72 [transl. quot. 855]. No secular service, nor tribute … nor Winterdene (or Witterdene, a kind of imposition).
1672. Cowel’s Interpr., Witerden … a kind of Taxation among the West-Saxons.
1710. Prideaux, Orig. Tithes, iv. 177, note. Written variously, Witerden, Wynterden and Witeredden. It was a Tax or Royal ayd imposed by the Saxon Parliaments.
1862. Miall, Title Deeds Ch. Eng., 19, note. [comment on prec.].
