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The lading of a ship. By charter of Queen Elizabeth in the 36th year of her reign, the lastage and ballastage and office of lastage and ballastage of all ships and other vessels betwixt the bridge of the City of London and the main sea, was granted to the Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, III. 278.
Ballast. Ballesse or lastage for shippes, saburra. Huloet, 1552. (Halliwell.)
A duty formerly paid

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the bahar for lastage or weighing, 30d. — A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
So that they shall be free from all toll, and from all custome; that is to say from all lastage, tallage, passage, cariage, riuage, asponsage, and from all wrecke, and from all their sale, carying and recarying through all our realme and dominion, with socke and souke, toll and theme. — The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
8d. the bahar for lastage or weighing, 30d. for _canikens_, and 35 d. for _seilars_: Besides all which they bargained for presents to sixteen chiefs or great men. — A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

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= French lestage; as last + -age.

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