Obs. [f. TITHING sb. 3 + PENNY, q.v. for Forms.] A customary duty formerly paid by manorial tenants to the lord, and also a payment by lords of manors at the hundred court.
1208. in Calr. Charter Rolls (1903), I. 29. Libera et quieta de … wardpeny et averpeny et thethingpeny et hengwite.
1297. Inq. Post Mortem, Edw. I. 80 (6) (P.R.O.). De tethyngpeny ad visus de hockday et ad festum Sancti Martini xl.s.
1334. Inq. P. M., Edw. III. 37 (22) (P.R.O.). Est ibidem [West Winterslow] quoddam feodum vocatum tethyngpeny viz ad festum Pasche et ad festum Sancti Michaelis xx.s.
a. 1600. MS. Cott. Vitell. C. 9, lf. 226 b. Tythinge-pany, hoc est quieti de tallagio decenæ sive Tythinge per consuetudinem.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Teding-, Tething-, or Tithing-Penny, a Tax or Allowance formerly paid to the Sherith, from every Tithing, towards the Charge of keeping Courts.
