Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An occasional tax levied by the Anglo-Norman kings on crown lands and royal towns.
- transitive verb To levy a tax on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See
tailage , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
- transitive verb To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
impost . - noun UK, law, obsolete A certain
rate ortax paid bybarons ,knights , andinferior tenants toward thepublic expenses . - verb To lay an
impost upon. - verb To cause to pay tallage.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dublin to that city to levy a "tallage," or tax, for the royal benefit.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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Sarre, la mirgesse (the doctor), is listed in the Paris tallage of 1292.
Doctors: Medieval. 2009
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Philip IV tried every device to raise money (feudal aides, war levies to replace military service, tallage of towns, special levies on clergy and nobles, loans and gifts, the maltôte or sales tax, debasement of the coinage, attacks on the Jews and Templars), but without finding an adequate solution.
1302, June 2001
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Further he granted to the same moonks, that whatsoeuer was bought in his dominions of France to their vse, should be free from toll, tallage, and paieng any maner of excise for the same.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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Bridport, and that the men of the town owed tallage to the amount of 53s.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The synagogues are flaming, and the first step has been taken in that tragic tale of proscription and tallage, tallage and expulsion which (it seems) must never end.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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By the end of 1339 he had agreed not to take a tallage of any kind without the consent of Parliament; and in 1341, to obtain further supplies, he submitted to his accounts being audited by a board chosen in Parliament, and promised not to choose ministers without the consent of his council.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The great nobility, who had consented that the king should tallage the profits of their own tenants, were not unwilling that he should tallage likewise those of an order of men whom it was much less their interest to protect.
II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909
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What knight-errant did ever pay tribute, subsidy, tallage, carriage, or passage over water?
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Louis also presented a gold cup, and gave the monks a hundred measures, medii, of wine, to be delivered annually at Poissy, also ordaining that they should be exempt from "toll, tax, and tallage" when journeying in his realm.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908
yarb commented on the word tallage
"...also his lawyer up from Philadelphia with his bulging briefcase, the sheer tax-maneuvering his wife's behaviour had now got him into! his own cursing yeoman forebears hadn't been amerced with a blacker set of reliefs and merchets, church-scot and plough-arms and smoke-farthings and hearthpenny on Holy Thursday, and nowadays who could he tallage in return?"
- W.M. Spackman, An Armful of Warm Girl
December 22, 2011