The full income, endowments and office attached to the benefice of a parish church. Contrast vicarage . Manorial overseer, usually a villager elected by tenants of the manor . The lord's official on the manor who supervised labour dues and renders owed by peasants. The fee paid by the heir of a deceased person on securing possession of a fief .
Tradition determines the amount demanded.
A fine paid by the heir of a vassal to the lord for the privilege of succeeding to an estate . A chest, box, or shrine, often elaborately decorated, in which a saint's relics were kept. Reliquaries were often the focal point of pilgrimages . A legal procedure used to enforce a right or to redress an injury. Monastic latrine building.