Originally, it was a tribute paid by English & Scottish farmers to freebooters for protection from harassment
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Why Is It Called "Blackmail"? | Yahoo Answers  Oct 24, 2009 ... The Scottish farmers called both nefarious deals "black" because they ... England and Scotland, freebooters extorted payment from farmers of the area in .... the word for tribute (in modern terms, protection money) paid by English and ... Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment.
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blackmail - definition and meaning - Wordnik  from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition. n. ... Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection from pillage. ... Ahhh, the first of the blackmail from the Federal government. .... This amounted to an informal tax or extra rent and the farmers, with twisted humour,...
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blackmail - Wiktionary  The word is variously derived from the tribute paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. This tribute was paid in goods ... From the practice of freebooting clan chieftains who ran protection rackets against Scottish farmers. Black from the evil of the...
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How was the word BLACKMAIL coined ? - Answerlib  ... to Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. This tribute was paid in goods or labour (reditus nigri, or "blackmail"); the ... tribute or rent paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to Border freebooters (country ... called mail from tenants and farmers in return for protection and general safety.
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Dfinition / Sens du blackmail - EngYes  This tribute was paid in goods or labour, in Latin reditus nigri "blackmail"; the opposite is ... pronounced (the th silent) bl-aich, "to protect" and mal (tribute, payment). ... + Middle English male "rent, tribute," from Old English mal "lawsuit, terms, ... Compare silver mail "rent paid in money" (1590s); buttock-mail (Scottish, 1530s)...
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Jeopary Questions page 1760 - CALENDAR LIT - TriviaBistro.com  EARLY AMERICA: Some Strawberry Bankers did this, named for the personal ownership of vessels preying on enemy ships  MINING "ORE": At the time of the...
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The whacks of a Shillelagh - Appalachian History  Feb 20, 2015 ... Both the Scots and the Irish used them this way, especially during the historical era when neither group was legally allowed weapons for self-defense. ... to being used as a weapon to ward off wild animals, muggers, and thieves, ... Another states that the first hawthorn bush grew from the staff of St. Joseph.
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Tory - Encyclopedia.com  The term was originally applied to outlaws in Ireland and was adopted as a derogatory ... Tory now (in the UK) a member or supporter of the Conservative Party; originally, ... The name comes (in the mid 17th century, denoting Irish peasants ... Presumably  Ir. *traighe pursuer, implied in traigheachd pursuit, f. tir pursue.
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Animal Print: The Literary Production of Humane America by Alyssa ...  II.3 A Band of Mercy performs its devotion to the animal cause in a spelling ..... From this day forth, Angell would commit himself to the widespread ... Free-Soil men in the Commonwealth (Autobiographical Sketches 4; Tiffany 93). .... sums of money sent to me by humane persons in various parts of our country, to be used for...
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Roger Williams - Wikipedia  Roger Williams was a Puritan, an English Reformed theologian, and later a Reformed Baptist who was an early proponent of religious freedom and separation of church and state, and a supporter of members of the Free Will Baptist movement. He was expelled by the Puritan leaders from the colony of Massachusetts ... However, his religious freedom concept may have influenced the prohibition...
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Mayday Books Blog: Working Crime  Apr 11, 2010 ... One prior one is After the Layoffs, about a laid-off loading-dock worker ... If you have never stolen from your employer, or bought something off the ... To add to their paltry incomes, these guys boost a giant-screen TV with a ... The English also have a saying: "As well as be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
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When Massachusetts Banned Christmas - History in the Headlines  Dec 22, 2015 ... How did the differences between Pilgrims and Puritans help shape the ... seem surprising for a group of devout Christianscontempt for Christmas. ... Bay Colony made it a criminal offense to publicly celebrate the holiday and...
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Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving | Providence Foundation  As the Pilgrims gathered their harvest in the autumn of 1621 and looked back over ... to propagate... the Gospel of the kingdom of Christ and be stepping stones for .... 8:18). The Pilgrims had great hopes for a large crop, yet as Bradford wrote,...
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Quakers - North Carolina Digital History - Learn NC  Founded in the 1600s by George Fox, the Friends fled persecution in ... had been the established church  the official state church  of Great Britain. ... Like many religious groups in England, Quakers were subject to much persecution. ... were executed for refusing to stop preaching Quaker beliefs or to leave the colony.
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How to Give Thanks for the Hard Times in Your Marriage | 94fm The ...  The most famous Pilgrim couple of all, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, were among those who participated in the Plymouth Colony's first Thanksgiving ... John and Priscilla's courtship and marriage became part of American folklore after ... shy about expressing his love for Priscilla, so he asks John (who worked aboard the...
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Millions for Defense, Not One Cent for Tribute | Hard Times Tokens  ... of the phrase millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute has been somewhat ... It is said that in order to avoid charges of counterfeiting, the phrase NOT ONE ... was honored at a dinner in Philadelphia on the night of June 18, 1798. Representative Robert Goodloe Harper of South Carolina, Chairman of the Ways...
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BBC - Tribe - Nenets  In 1961 the Soviets collectivised reindeer herds and created several large state farms ... Subsequently the term 'Brigade' came to refer to the groups that were formed ... The Nenets herder economy is driven by the reindeer meat that they sell. ... inner (tobaki) and outer boot (kisy) that are worn together and tied up with a belt.
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God is an Anarchist - Render Unto Caesar - Simple Liberty  And he said unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? ... Paying tribute was seen as the equivalent of worshipping a false god. ... This is important to notice because at that time, the Jewish Zealots were a political group of ... I do not know if Jesus or his disciples possessed Roman coins, but to have shown one...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland facts ...  Before the Romans left Britain in the 5th century, Scotland had been .... the Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland, the United Kingdom formally came into being. ... welfare "from the cradle to the grave," coupled with the nationalization of industry. ...... in Scotland that celebrate the life and work of native poet Robert Burns.
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Cattlemen's Protective Association of Indian Territory | Encyclopedia ...  The Choctaw and Chickasaw apparently had already set up an association by ... as the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association and the Canadian and Cimarron...
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Jeopary Questions page 620 - RECENT MOVIES - TriviaBistro.com  HOLIDAYS: Reputedly, the first Christmas tree in England was the one Prince Albert ... Children's taunt once used by fugitive Deborah Ulrich in a letter to police.