Definitions for tallage

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tallage tal·lage

Spelling: [tal-ij]

IPA: /ˈtæl ɪdʒ/

Tallage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in tallage (aaegllt).

Definitions for tallage

noun

1. Medieval History. a tax paid by peasants to the lord of their manor.
2. a compulsory tax levied by the Norman and early Angevin kings of England upon the demesne lands of the crown and upon all royal towns.

Origin of tallage

1250-1300; Middle English taillage Old French taill(ier) to cut, tax (see tail²) + Middle English -age -age

Examples for tallage

Now and then it is mentioned that tallage is to be levied once a year although the amount remains uncertain.

tallage was first imposed on the colony in the first year of this reign, but yielded little, and tithes were not much better paid.

A tallage on royal towns and demesnes, nevertheless, was set without authority of parliament four years afterwards.

Socmen were like "liber tenentes" frequently liable to "merchet, heriot and tallage."

In the latter instance the king also gave leave to the lay and spiritual nobility to set a tallage on their own tenants.

This matter of tallage could certainly be treated as an alteration of services, and sent for trial to the Common Bench.

Now and then it is mentioned that the tallage is to be levied once a year, although the amount remains uncertain.

tallage, even arbitrary tallage, was but a tax after all, and did not detract from personal freedom or free tenure in this sense.