black rent

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 485 words | Copyright

black rent, the name that came to be given to the protection money exacted, mostly by Gaelic lords, from local communities and even from the Dublin government. Art MacMurrough levied it in Leinster from the 1370s. In the 15th and early 16th centuries it became so widespread and regular as to constitute a form of unofficial taxation. It has parallels elsewhere, for example in the ‘blackmail’ collected by the lineages of the Anglo‐Scottish borders.

Robin Frame

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