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Definition of Tallage

1. n. A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.

2. v. t. To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

Definition of Tallage

1. Noun. An impost. ¹

2. Verb. To lay an impost upon. ¹

3. Verb. To cause to pay tallage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tallage

1. to tax [v -LAGED, -LAGING, -LAGES] - See also: tax

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tallage

Literary usage of Tallage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Economic History: Select Documents edited by Alfred Edward Bland (1919)
"THE ASSESSMENT OF A tallage [Patent Roll, 8 Edward II, p. 1, m. 14, schedule], 1314. The King to his beloved and faithful, Hervey de Stanton, ..."

2. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1907)
"This continued under the more common name of tallage, and formed an occasional tax nominally extending in amount to one-tenth of the goods of those entitled ..."

3. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1882)
"William is named in the Computus 33 Ed. I., and tallage arrears 18 Ed. II.; ... William is mentioned in the tallage arrears, 18 Ed. II. ; Robert amongst the ..."

4. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Leicester (England), Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1901)
"And there is allowed to him of his own tallage for the loss ... tallage of the tenth of the lord King levied at the feast of the Apostles Peter (and Paul) ..."

5. Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History by Henry William Carless Davis (1921)
"WRIT FOR THE COLLECTION OF tallage. This is another monument of Edward's financial ... The exaction of the tallage was the act of a man of very precise and ..."

6. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Leicester (England), Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1899)
"From Rie. of Sileby and his fellows, collectors of a tallage assessed at the ... Arrears for half of a tallage assessed for the coming of the King from ..."

7. The Dawn of the Constitution: Or, The Reigns of Henry III and Edward I (A. D by James Henry Ramsay (1908)
"I cannot find any precedent for so heavy a tallage as a Sixth. • Parly. Writs. I 136-138. The representatives of the clergy attended under the ..."

8. Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Pierre-Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges (1812)
"... after the taille, tallage, or subsidy. I never thought any This reason alone would be sufficient to prove that the settling of the tallage or subsidy ..."

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