Meaning of tallage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An impost.
   countable, uncountable
2. A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
   UK, countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“The land⟳ tax, in its modern shape⟳, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect⟳ of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land⟳, hidages, scutages, or tallages”

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