Re: Real-Life Weirdness
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Originally Posted by Johan Larson
The City of London is still paying rent to the queen on land leased in or before 1211.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...leased-in-1211
The rent is an axe, a knife, 6 horseshoes, and 61 nails. They're not even sure where the land in question was located. But the rent keeps being paid to the Queen's Remembrancer. |
Do they actually pay with those items, or have they at least shifted to the cash equivalent?
(Not that those items wouldn't come in handy, you understand. I've seen the Queen's Life Guard on patrol, outside Buckingham Palace.)
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