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Definition of Scutage
1. n. Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. See Escuage.
Definition of Scutage
1. Noun. A tax, in feudal times, paid in lieu of military service ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scutage
1. a tax exacted by a feudal lord in lieu of military service [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scutage
Literary usage of Scutage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"Indeed the demand conceded by the Charter of 1215, namely, that no scutage be
imposed without the common counsel of the realm, would be barely intelligible, ..."
2. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"These two taxes affected two distinct classes of land-owners : the scutage was
the tax assessed upon the lands of the tenants-in-chivalry, ..."
3. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1907)
"It seems possible, however, that scutage originated earlier than the reign of
... It has been conjectured that scutage represented the sum paid to such ..."
4. English Economic History: Select Documents edited by Alfred Edward Bland (1919)
"AN ACQUITTANCE OF THE COLLECTORS OF scutage OF A SUM OF IQL LEVIED BY THEM AND
REPAID [Chancery Miscellanea, 1, 18, 9], 1319. To all Christ's faithful to ..."
5. Parochial Antiquities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden: Burcester, and ...by White Kennett, Thomas Delafield by White Kennett, Thomas Delafield (1818)
"And at another time, by the king's order, a scutage was imposed on all the tenants of
... scutage, from Lat. scutum, я shield, whereon they wore a device or ..."
6. A History of Taxation and Taxes in England: From the Earliest Times to the by Stephen Dowell (1884)
"Refusal of the northern barons, in 1214, to pay the scutage for Normandy. ...
continued for a century and a quarter after the scutage of Toulouse. ..."
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