Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tallage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tallage \Tal"lage\, v. t.
To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
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