† swarf-money, -penny Obs. local.
[perh. a corruption of *warth-money, -penny = *ward-money, ward-penny; cf. wroth silver.]
A due paid in commutation of the service of castle-guard, -ward.
| ? 16.. in Manley Cowell's Interpr. (1672) s.v., The Swarff-money is one peny half-peny, it must be paid before the rising of the Sun [etc.]. 1730 Thomas Dugdale's Warwickshire I. 4/2 A certain rent due unto the Lord of this hundred [sc. Knightlow], called Wroth money, or Warth money’ or Swarff peny, probably the same with Ward penny. |