Scutage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 216 anagrams from letters in scutage (acegstu).
First recorded in 1425-75; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word scūtāgium. See scutum, -age
Danegeld and scutage and feudal aids fastened only on the land.
This tax was called the scutage, and amounted to three pounds English, or forty Angevin shillings, for each knight's fee.
On the institution of 'scutage' there has been much misconception.
Barons and knights paid according to their knight's fee a scutage ranging from 10s.
There are several entries which state that when the scutage is 40s.
It is clear that he consented to levy the scutage, raised on the whole realm, on ecclesiastical as well as secular property.
scutage or service of the shield, was another compensation in money, instead of personal service against the Scots.
The owner of every knight's fee was to pay a sum of money known as scutage (shield-money) in lieu of service.
For the first and only time in his life he brought to England the mercenaries who were paid with the scutage money.
A new scutage, the "scutage of Bedford," was imposed on the realm.