Never heard of peppercorn rent until reading your comment- as a nice coincidence I was reading a Reddit thread on weird NYC trivia that included a link out to this article of the Queen visiting NYC in 1970s to collect 279 years worth of back rent for Trinity Church (which was literally 279 peppercorns)

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/10/archives/queen-warmly-rec...