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Show Wroth Silver Ever since the year 1170 the parishes par-ishes surrounding Knightlow, Stret-ton Stret-ton - on - Dunsmore, Warwickshire, have paid Wroth Silver to the Lord of the Manor on St. Martin's day. Shortly before sunrise the money is placed in a niche in the remains of an old stone cross, and then is collpcted by the Steward of the Manor, according to Tit-Bits Magazine. Mag-azine. The fees are purely nominal, ranging from one penny to two shillings shill-ings and threepence-halfpenny. Defaulters, De-faulters, however, are dealt with severely, and have to pay a fine of twenty shillings for every penny, as well as a white bull with red ears and a red nose. Eut there has been no necessity within living memory me-mory to enforce this fine. |