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tallage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
n. 1 An impost. 2 (context UK legal obsolete English) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses. vb. 1 To lay an impost upon. 2 To cause to pay tallage.
Wikipedia
Tallage or talliage (from the French ''tailler, i.e. '' a part cut out of the whole) may have signified at first any tax, but became in England and France a land use or land tenure tax. Later in England it was further limited to assessments by the crown upon cities, boroughs, and royal domains. In effect, tallage was a land tax.
Usage examples of "tallage".
On the other hand, their common folk are so crushed down with gabelle, and poll-tax, and every manner of cursed tallage, that the spirit has passed right out of them.
London, Matilda demanded a huge tallage of the city, which I understand she had no right to do, being not yet crowned.
England it is the known birthright and inheritance of the subject that no tax, tallage, or other charge shall be levied or imposed but by common consent in England, and that the subsidies of tonnage and poundage are no way due or payable but by a free gift and special Act of Parliament.
Bridport, and that the men of the town owed tallage to the amount of 53s.
Benevolence, or by such like charge, by which the statutes before-mentioned, and other the good laws and statutes of this realm, your subjects have inherited this freedom, that they shuld not be compelled to contribute to any tax, tallage, aid, or other like charge, not set by common consent in Parliament.