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. (obsolete spelling of tallage nodot=yes English) (qualifier: tax). (Middle English–18th century)
Usage examples of "talliage".
Under these circumstances the council was asked to delay the talliage until Parliament should meet.
They had complained of being charged taxes and talliages in excess of any other of the commons.
The king was never content with the stated rents, but levied heavy talliages at pleasure on the inhabitants both of town and, country who lived within his demesne.
Indeed, it appears from that charter, that though the Conqueror had granted his military tenants an immunity from all taxes and talliages, he and his son William had never thought themselves bound to observe that rule, but had levied impositions at pleasure on all the landed estates of the kingdom.