trething

From Welsh treth (“an allowance, contribution, tribute, or tax”), trethu (“to rate or tax”).

trething (plural trethings)

1. (obsolete) A tax; an impost.
   • 1732, Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, The History of England:

     All counties, hundreds, wapentakes and trethings , shall stand at the old ferm, without any encrease, except in our Demesne Lands

• “trething”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ghittern