scutage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of scutage
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word scūtāgium. See scutum, -age
Example Sentences
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In Mendel Rivers' South Carolinian fief, the voters do all but pay scutage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had they come, as representatives of the feudal overlord—the Landlord—ao as to make an assessment for the next scutage?
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The first effects of the representative influence in the fiscal domain are the abandonment of the tallages on towns and the decline of scutage as a mode of levy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
Obviously, when the King's scutage had to be levied, there was no telling who was liable for it, or how it should be apportioned.
From The Coming of the Friars by Jessopp, Augustus
Richard had increased the amount of the scutage which Henry the Second had introduced, and applied it to raise funds for his ransom.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard
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