Sentences with 'rents'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rents and other words derived from it.
• « In fact, peasants did very well in these centuries; they were often able to bargain with their lords for stable rents, and a fairly prosperous class of landed peasants emerged who enjoyed traditional rights vis-à-vis the nobility. »
• « Perhaps most importantly, nobles everywhere paid few taxes, especially in comparison to the taxes, duties and rents that plagued the peasantry. »
• « The Catholic Church, the only church in Europe at the time, also owned vast tracts of land and became very rich by collecting not only tithes (taxes consisting of 10 per cent of annual profits) but also rents from its lands. »