escuage

How to use escuage in a sentence

• When the custom of escuage arose is a matter which no antiquarian researches have settled.

  The History of Chivalry, Volume I (of 2) | Charles Mills

• Amid the obligations was that of escuage, by which the price of a knight's fee should be paid every year.

  Sir Nigel | Arthur Conan Doyle

• In this yeare the king tooke escuage, fortie shillings of euerie knights fée, towards the charges of his last wars in Wales.

  Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (9 of 12) | Raphael Holinshed

• Soone after whose arriuall, escuage was gathered through the realme towards the bearing of the kings charges.

  Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (8 of 12) | Raphael Holinshed

• Their feudal service was now commuted for an escuage, which fell very short of the expenses incurred in a protracted campaign.

  View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3) | Henry Hallam