The Collaborative International Dictionary
Truage \Tru"age\, n. [Cf. OF. truage a tax. See True.]
A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax. [Obs.]
--Ld. Berners.A tax or impost; tribute. [Obs.]
--R. of Gloucester.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) tribute, as paid to a ruler or superior. 2 (context obsolete English) A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax.
Usage examples of "truage".
And in presence of all his lords and knights he said to them in this wise: I will that ye return unto your lord and Procuror of the Common Weal for the Romans, and say ye to him, Of his demand and commandment I set nothing, and that I know of no truage nor tribute that I owe to him, nor to none earthly prince, Christian nor heathen.
Which said messengers, after their entering and coming into the presence of King Arthur, did to him their obeisance in making to him reverence, and said to him in this wise: The high and mighty Emperor Lucius sendeth to the King of Britain greeting, commanding thee to acknowledge him for thy lord, and to send him the truage due of this realm unto the Empire, which thy father and other to fore thy precessors have paid as is of record, and thou as rebel not knowing him as thy sovereign, withholdest and retainest contrary to the statutes and decrees made by the noble and worthy Julius Cesar, conqueror of this realm, and first Emperor of Rome.
And sithen Sir Elias proffereth so largely, I shall fight with him, or else I will be slain in the field, or else I will deliver Cornwall from the old truage.