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carucage, carrucage Feudal Syst.|ˈkærjuːkɪdʒ|
(Also 6 charugage.)
[ad. med.L. car(r)ūcāgium (= ONF. caruage, F. charruage), f. med.L. carrūca plough. (If of Latin age, the type would have been *carrūcāticum; but the word was of later origin, after F. -age, med.L. -āgium, had become familiar formatives: see -age.)]
A tax levied on each plough or carucate of land.
1577Holinshed Chron., John an. 1200 (R.) The dutie called charugage, that was, three shillings of euerie plough-land. 1592Stow Annals 271 The same time King Henry [III] tooke Carucage, that is two Marks of Silver of every Knights Fee, towards the Marriage of His Sister Isabell to the Emperour. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. 68 After the taking of Bedford, he had Carrucage, that is, two shillings vpon euery Ploughland. 1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 851 The King had granted him..a Carucage of Two Shillings on each Plough-Land. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. I. xi. 382 [Danegeld] was in very nearly the same form reproduced under the title of Carucage by the ministers of Richard I. |