Cert-money, or head-money, was a common

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, paid annually by the residents of several manors to the lords thereof; and sometimes to the

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...

; ''pro certo letae'', for the certain keeping of the

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. This in ancient records, was called ''certum letae''.

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