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Latin, census, gablum.

Tribute was a customary payment made by the
peasantry to the lord of the manor in addition to their rents and renders

For more detail on customary dues of this kind, see Paul Vinogradoff, English society in the eleventh century: essays in English medieval history (1908); and N. Nielson, Customary rents (1910).