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London Pays Ceremonial Rent for Unknown Lands Since 13th Century

London continues to pay a symbolic annual rent to the monarch for two plots of land whose exact locations have been lost to time. The payment consists of two knives, six oversized horseshoes, and sixty-one nails, a tradition dating back to the 13th century.

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