Brewer's: Fee

Anglo-Saxon feoh, cattle, goods, money. So in Latin, pecunia, from pecus, cattle. Capital is capita, heads [of cattle], and chattels is a mere variant.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Fee-farm-rent
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