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TAL-ij
noun, verb
a ad-hoc tax imposed upon cities, especially by early English kings; to impose a tax
1891The White Company...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. It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.1910The Church and the EmpireThe Crown did not hesitate to use the episcopal patronage and to fill up vacant canonries and benefices with its own followers, and it often took the opportunity to levy upon the inhabitants of the diocese a special tax—tallagium, tallage, or taille—which a landlord had a right of exacting from his unfree tenants.Labels: Arthur Conan Doyle, D. J. Medley
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