The Collaborative International Dictionary
tailage
Tallage \Tal"lage\, Talliage \Tal"li*age\, n. [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf. Tailage.] (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]
Note: When paid out of knight's fees, it was called
scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when
upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage.
--Blackstone.
Wiktionary
tailage
n. (obsolete form of tallage English)