escuage
English
Etymology
Old French escuage.
Noun
escuage (countable and uncountable, 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:
Old French
Etymology
Either from escu (“shield”) + -age, or escuer (“to evade”) + -age.
Noun
escuage m (oblique plural escuages, nominative singular escuages, nominative plural escuage)
- escuage (medieval payment to a lord)
Descendants
- English: escuage (borrowed)