tallage

This was meant to encourage participation, and many did indeed join in order to avoid the tallage.

The last occasion on which tallage was levied in England appears to be about the year 1332.

Do you dismount and inquire within as to their tallage."

Not only was their military or court service heavy but they also paid tallage and other servile dues.

In effect, tallage was a land tax.

Like scutage, tallage was superseded by the subsidy system in the 14th century.

Tallage lasted much longer in France, where it was a royal tax and one of estate owners with tenants.

It was also distinct from the tallage, which was a tax imposed on the towns and the royal lands.

Some were taxes, like the seignior's tallage.

Such was the spirit of the times, however, that by 1246 the village had been freed in exchange for an annual tallage of sixty pounds.

His revenue from the tallage raised on all properties other than military fiefs gave only a slightly larger sum, about 315,000 pounds of Tours.

Instead a succession of kings created alternative land taxes, such as the tallage and carucage taxes.

In 1340, the discredited tallage tax system was finally abolished by Edward III.

Danegeld is a similar type of land tax, but tallage was brought to England by the Normans as a feudal duty.

To oversimplify, lesser citizens preferred a tallage based on an individual's real property or his income, whereas the rich preferred sales and similar taxes.

To this may be added provision for public bathing, as the twenty-six public bathhouses listed in the tallage of Paris of 1292.

In Aries in 1205, knights paid the tithe on their property, while others paid both tithe and tallage.

(10) And had he not assumed the duties of knighthood by the age of thirty, he would have to pay the count of Provence's tallage.

It is improbable, however, that the whole amount was paid at once, as for many years after the imposition of the tallage arrears were demanded from the Jews.

By the end of Henry's reign the king ceased to borrow from the Jewish community and instead turned to an aggressive campaign of tallage taxation and fines.

Both tried to lessen the charges that weighed on them, namely, tallage and forced loans, quartering or hospitality rights, inheritance controls and taxes, formariage, and military service.

In 1310 he was selected to go on the king's service to Gascony, but in the same year appears as collecting tallage in Somerset and in London.

The Worcester accounts also show that the tenants' resistance was directed particularly at payments which testified to their servile status, such as tallage and payments to commute labour service.

In 1331, when he had risen to the rank of king's serjeant, he was appointed with others to assess a tallage in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Berkshire (25 June).

In 1255 he was imprisoned as a surety for the tallage of the Jews, and two years later he was deposed from office, being succeeded by his brother Hagin (Hayyim).

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.