"wardcorn" meaning in English

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          "text": "And that the aforesaid Abbess and convent and their successors, and all tenants, residents, and non-residents, and other residents aforesaid, […] be quit through our entire realm of England of all pannage, lestage, […] and of treasure to be drawn away, and of wardpeny, wardcorne, averpeny, hundredpeny, […] and of all such custom",
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          "ref": "1989, George Feairheller Deiser, Year Books of Richard II - Volume 12, page 68",
          "text": "and from a rent called wardcorn one quarter, three bushels of barley worth fifteen shillings per year, at the value of five pence the bushel.",
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          "text": "The additional payment of grain as ‘wardcorn’ is a local peculiarity, and refers to some ancient military responsibilty upon the vill[agers].",
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        "A payment of corn to be offered in commutation of military service."
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        "(UK, law, obsolete) A payment of corn to be offered in commutation of military service."
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