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tallage
tallage A tax in medieval Europe that was generally imposed by an estate owner upon his unfree tenantry and its amount and frequency varied. In England it was a royal tax from the 12th century onward, levied on boroughs and royal lands. It was condemned by the barons in
MAGNA CARTA in 1215 and became less important with the rise of parliamentary taxation, finally being abolished in 1340.
In France the “taille” was greatly extended in the 14th century to meet the expenses of the
HUNDRED YEARS WAR, although, because it was the monetary equivalent of feudal service, the nobility and clergy were exempted from payment. The main burden of the taille, by now the most important direct tax, lay upon the peasants until it was abolished in the
FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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"O for a muse of fire": Henry V and plotted self-exculpation.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...reader to iudge. But yet to speake a truth, by his proceedings, after he had atteined to the crowne, what with such taxes, tallages, subsidies and exactions as he was constreined to charge the people with; and what by punishing such as mooued with disdeine...
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William of Norwich and the Expulsion of the Jews.(TOPICS, NOTES AND COMMENTS)
Magazine article from: Folklore; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...extraordinarily repressive measures were set in motion to extort money from them. The worst of these exactions was "the great tallage" of 1210 in which John demanded 66,000 marks in tax. Wealthy Jews were kept in prison until they paid up, and were sometimes...
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Fed up with paying tax? Blame it on the French!
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 3/7/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...simply redirected to the new Norman overlords. By the 12th century, Danegeld had turned into a feudal tax on land called tallage. This new form of the tax was a constant bone of contention. In 1312, London resisted paying it and in 1332 Parliament protested...
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BUNHILL: A heavy-duty Budget, please, and bring back the window tax
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/3/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Post Office - did you know it has to pay whatever the mandarins tell it to, without the option?) q Hidage, scutage and tallage. Self-explanatory really. I suggest the Chancellor just announces them, and sees what happens. q Tonnage and poundage...
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Bristol's Judaica Project.(Bristol, England)
Magazine article from: History Today; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, explain mat Jews were regarded as the King's chattels. taxable at will under the Bristol Tallage of 1213 the crown confiscated one-third of all Jewish property. Three ,ears earlier the merchant Abraham refused to contribute...
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England's Jewish Solution: Experiment and Expulsion, 1262-1290.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...royal villeins" -- under Edward's protection but very much at his disposal; the manner and extent of the exaction of royal tallage; the attempt to prohibit usury -- entailing the "Edwardian experiment"; as well as the economic conditions of widespread...
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tallage
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tallage , Fr. taille, a type of feudal tax. In its origins tallage is not clearly distinguishable from aids (a type of...by the French Revolution. The English tax known as tallage, introduced by the Norman kings as a partial substitute...
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taille
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
taille see tallage .
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Danegeld
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...was first levied in 868, then in 871 by Alfred , and occasionally thereafter. Under Æthelred (965?-1016) it became a regular tax, and was collected by later rulers until the 12th cent., when it was converted into tallage .
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royal prerogative
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...the reigns of John, Henry III, and Edward II turned on aspects of the prerogative—e.g. the king's right to tallage . Even more basic royal powers were under fire in the 1370s when the Commons began to impeach royal ministers and in 1395 when...
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villein
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...during the seasonal year, as at plowing or harvesting time), payment on the marriage of the villein's daughter, payment of tallage on demand, and the like. In practice, however, distinctions blurred, and all land tenure on the manor tended to approach...
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