cautionary town

cautionary town
cautionary town,
a town whose control and revenues are granted by a government to a foreign power as security for the payment of a debt or the performance of an obligation. Certain strongholds in the Netherlands, especially the cities of Flushing, Briel, and Rammekens, were thus pledged to the English crown in the time of Elizabeth I.

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