I suppose taxation can be thought of as scutage, that is, pay the Govt to do things that you, as an individual, don’t have the time, inclination, wherewithal, etc. to do, or to get out of doing something otherwise obligated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Threat of Forced Labor Through Mandatory “National Service”:] Reference

Royal finance: (1) nonfeudal revenues: Danegeld, shire farms, judicial fines; (2) the usual feudal revenues: relief (inheritance tax on great fiefs), scutage (paid in lieu of performance of knight's service).    From Wordnik.com.  [b. The British Isles] Reference

Richard had increased the amount of the scutage which Henry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins] Reference

This yere scutage was gadered in Engelond of every knyghtes fee xl.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum] Reference

The scutage of the present year does not seem to have gone beyond this practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)] Reference

John meanwhile had in January imposed a scutage of two marks and a half per shield throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)] Reference

= When John returned he called upon all his vassals who had remained at home to pay an exorbitant scutage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII] Reference

For the first and only time in his life he brought to England the mercenaries who were paid with the scutage money.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII] Reference

John had again raised the rate of scutage, and imposed aids, fines, and ransoms at his pleasure without counsel of the baronage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins] Reference

No scutage or tax, other than the three regular aids, is to be imposed except by the consent of the common council of the kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Pandulf excommunicated him, and a great council granted a special scutage, "the scutage of Bytham," to equip an army to crush the rebel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

This was followed by a scutage at the rate of two marks on the knight's fee, determined on at a great council held at Oxford early in January.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)] Reference

As a matter of fact this tax was less important in the history of taxation than the extension of the principle of scutage which accompanied it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)] Reference

With the exception of the three customary feudal aids which still remained to the crown, 'no scutage or aid shall be imposed in our realm save by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins] Reference

Likewise, in the first year of King John, he answered for ten knights fees towards the scutage of Normandy, then assessed at two marks for each knight's fee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

He was also restored to his lands in Alcester; for King Henry III. requiring the arrears of that scutage, in the fifth of his reign, this Peter was questioned for si.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

In the next year a still more important measure of taxation was adopted, which was evidently intended to bring in larger sums to the treasury than an ordinary scutage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)] Reference

The dislike of the taxes made necessary by the Welsh and French wars, such as the "scutage of Poitou" and the "scutage of Kerry," swelled the outcry against the justiciar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

More important was a scutage, probably ordered at this time, of the unusual rate of two marks on the knight's fee, twenty shillings having been the previous limit as men remembered it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)] Reference

Down to this date a scutage had been imposed every year since the king's accession, at the rate of two marks on the fee except on the last occasion when the tax had been twenty shillings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)] Reference

Chapter xii, which declares that no extraordinary scutage or aid shall be imposed except by common counsel of the kingdom, may be taken as an assertion of the principle "no taxation without consent".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

This was the effect also of the gradual transformation of the sheriff into a more strictly ministerial officer and the diminished value of feudal levies in war as indicated by the extension of scutage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)] Reference

It was this that he had attempted to do, by sending judges round the country and by improving the law, by establishing scutage to weaken the power of the barons, and by strengthening the national forces by the Assize of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII] Reference

` scutage ', we will cause the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons to be summoned individually by letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magna Carta] Reference

Poitou, scutage of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

Vale of; scutage of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

Bedford, Castle of; scutage of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

(12) No ` scutage 'or ` aid' may be levied in our kingdom without its general consent, unless it is for the ransom of our person, to make our eldest son a knight, and (once) to marry our eldest daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magna Carta] Reference

A new scutage, the "scutage of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference