Dublin to that city to levy a "tallage," or tax, for the royal benefit. From Wordnik.com. [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference
Sarre, la mirgesse (the doctor), is listed in the Paris tallage of 1292. From Wordnik.com. [Doctors: Medieval.] Reference
Bridport, and that the men of the town owed tallage to the amount of 53s. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Further he granted to the same moonks, that whatsoeuer was bought in his dominions of France to their vse, should be free from toll, tallage, and paieng any maner of excise for the same. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second] Reference
Philip IV tried every device to raise money (feudal aides, war levies to replace military service, tallage of towns, special levies on clergy and nobles, loans and gifts, the maltôte or sales tax, debasement of the coinage, attacks on the Jews and Templars), but without finding an adequate solution. From Wordnik.com. [1302, June] Reference
What knight-errant did ever pay tribute, subsidy, tallage, carriage, or passage over water?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Book. XVIII. Wherein Are Decided the Controversies of the Helmet of Mambrino and of the Pannel, with Other Strange and Most True Adventures] Reference
We only find a tallage of one thousand pounds, with promise of exemption for three years, unless the King or his son should undertake a crusade. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)] Reference
The justiciaries appointed by the Prince to levy the tallage upon them were declared to have lost their authority; the Jews passed back to the property of the King. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)] Reference
The synagogues are flaming, and the first step has been taken in that tragic tale of proscription and tallage, tallage and expulsion which (it seems) must never end. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval People] Reference
On the other hand, their common folk are so crushed down with gabelle, and poll-tax, and every manner of cursed tallage, that the spirit has passed right out of them. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
No longer content with simple confirmation, they drew up, in the form of a statute, a petition requiring that no tallage or aid should henceforth be taken without the assent of the estates. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference
The "taille" or tallage has become the land tax; the "gabelle," the tax on salt; the "aids," the indirect contributions and the consolidated duties; the tax on trade companies and guilds, the license, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind] Reference
Louis also presented a gold cup, and gave the monks a hundred measures, medii, of wine, to be delivered annually at Poissy, also ordaining that they should be exempt from "toll, tax, and tallage" when journeying in his realm. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].] Reference
The great nobility, who had consented that the king should tallage the profits of their own tenants, were not unwilling that he should tallage likewise those of an order of men whom it was much less their interest to protect. From Wordnik.com. [II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society] Reference
By the end of 1339 he had agreed not to take a tallage of any kind without the consent of Parliament; and in 1341, to obtain further supplies, he submitted to his accounts being audited by a board chosen in Parliament, and promised not to choose ministers without the consent of his council. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Statutum de Tallagio non concedendo, That no tallage or aid shall be levied by the king or his heirs in this realm, without the good will and assent of the archbishops, bishops, earls, barons, knights, burgesses, and other the freemen of the commonalty of this realm; and, by authority of parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell] Reference
Over the next few years her standing in the Winchester community grew and in 1241 she was elected to be responsible for the Winchester hostage, her brother-in-law Elias, who was answerable for collecting the community’s tallage. From Wordnik.com. [Entrepreneurs.] Reference
Id. for tallage assessed upon the manors of the bi - shoprick, and other sums for divers other parts of the revenue thereof; in all, 2 (5201./s. From Wordnik.com. [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
That it was granted by Magna Charta, andx) ther the good laws and ftatutes of England, and confirmed by the petition and Bill of Rights, that the fubjeft ihould not be compelled to contribute to any tax, tallage, aiil, or other like charge, not fet by common confent of parliament. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of interesting, authentic papers relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America [microform] : shewing the causes and progress of that misunderstanding from 1764 to 1775] Reference
Than are to now my tallage of gray hairs1560. From Wordnik.com. [VI. Lancelot: VI] Reference
4.r. t, no tallage or aid fhdl be levied witb«. From Wordnik.com. [A Compendious Digest of the Statute Law, Comprising the Substance and Effect of All the Public ...] Reference
Granted, historically, taxes have been known by many names, including toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, and aid. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Freedman: Arnold's Unhealthy Language] Reference
So that they shall be free from all toll, and from all custome; that is to say from all lastage, tallage, passage, cariage, riuage, asponsage, and from all wrecke, and from all their sale, carying and recarying through all our realme and dominion, with socke and souke, toll and theme. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01] Reference
Beaumont, who said he was "confused" by the difference between a toll and a tax, pulled up the definition of "tax" on his PowerPoint presentation: "A tax … is any contribution imposed by government whether under the name of toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, aid, supply or other name.". From Wordnik.com. [The Shelby County Reporter] Reference
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