The name is absent

GLOSSARY

Quinta: a local fine for trespassing; originally a fifth, but greatly re-
duced by the sixteenth century. Urena and Bonilla, p. 128; Yanguas, ii,
p. 624; also above, pp. 191, 237.

Recuage or recoage: a royal tax levied for the upkeep of public highways
{recua: train of pack animals). Llorente, ii, p. 175; Dozy and Engelmann,
PP∙329 ff∙

Rey pajaro: see Moharrache.

Ronda or roda: a local tax levied to maintain the mounted night watch-
men (ronda) around the outskirts of the town. Llorente, ii, pp. 177; Saez,
Monedas de Enrique III, pp. 434-435; Lopez de Ayala, p. 222.

Rufala: a name applied in Badajoz in the reign of Alfonso X to the ec-
clesiastical medio diezmo or half-tithe levied on migratory sheep. Acad.
Hist., Ms. 25-ι-C-13, p. 284.

Saca: a Navarrese tax on provisions for transients. See above, p. 158, n.

Saigas: a tax levied on migratory sheep for the use of salt licks.

Sanjuaniega: an impost collected on St. John’s day from all migratory
sheep in the local pastures. The name was also applied to certain local pas-
tures; see above, p. 93.

Sayonfa : a fee paid to the sayon, a town official, whose functions resem-
bled those of the alguacil or constable. This tax was common in Aragon
and Navarre; it was rarely encountered by Mesta members in Castilian
towns. Borao, p. 329; Yanguas, ii, p. 606; Llorente, ii, p. 177.

Suela: see Zuela.

Verde: a payment for pasturage in green barley, which was fed to the
animals as a purgative. Arch. Mesta, T-ι, Talavera, 1488; Prov. iv, 26.

Yantar: originally a tribute paid by a town to the king to maintain the
royal household during a visit; later it became a regular tax paid in a lump
sum by a town to the king. In Navarre this tax was called the cena. Mi-
gratory herdsmen were always called upon by the towns near which they
were pasturing their flocks to contribute toward the yaniar. Yanguas, ii,
pp. 609-610; Saez, Monedas de Enrique IV, pp. 63-64; idem, Monedas de
Enrique III, pp. 420-424; Colmeiro, i, p. 468. Occasionally a yantar was
collected by the king upon the birth of a royal heir, or when a session of
the Cortes was called.

Yerba: a fee exacted from those who cut hay on the commons. Llorente,
ii, p. 183.

Zuela, suela, sulla: a tax levied for the pasturing of sheep upon a forage
plant with the same or a similar name. Arch. Mesta, Prov. iv, 26.

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