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Webster 1913 Edition
Escuage
Es′cu-age
(?; 48)
, Noun.
(Feud. Law)
Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also
scutage
. Blackstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Escuage
ES'CUAGE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
escuage
escuage
English
Noun
escuage (plural escuages)
- (historical, Middle Ages) Payment to a lord in lieu of military service.
- 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press (1902), page 148:
- ..subsidies were not to be granted, nor levied in this case ; that is, for wars of Scotland : for that the law had provided another course, by service of escuage, for those journeys...
- 1829, George Crabb, History of English Law, 1831 American Edition, page 374,
- When the escuage which was to be paid was uncertain, being more or less according to the pleasure of the king or the assessment of parliament ; then the tenure by escuage was a sort of knight′s service.
- 1841, Thomas de Littleton, William Rastell (translator), Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (editor), Lyttleton, His Treatise of Tenures: In French and English, page 188,
- And the cause why this service is called grand serjeanty is, for that it is a greater and more worthy service than the service in the tenure of escuage.
- 1866, Land Tax, entry in William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (editors), A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art, Volume 2, page 308,
- These escuages were virtually a very heavy land tax, […]
- 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press (1902), page 148: