单词 | chevage |
释义 | † chevagen. Obsolete exc. Historical. Capitation or poll-money paid to a lord or superior; particularly, an annual payment due to a feudal lord by each of his villeins. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > poll tax head pennyc1175 head silver1252 cense1458 chevage1461 poll money1468 head moneyc1515 polling-penny?1556 capitation?1608 poll-silver1610 census1613 headagea1631 poll1669 poll tax1692 capitation tax1695 c1250 H. de Bracton De Legibus Angliæ (1569) i. x Cheuagium soluunt (quod dicitur recognitio in signum subiectionis & dominii de capite suo). 1292 Britton i. xxxii. §9 Suffist qe les seignurs..preignent..un dener par an de chefage et un jour en aust de service.] 1461–83 Liber Niger Edw. IV in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 23 The King offerithe or sendithe to the shryne of Seint Thomas of Caunterbury, in the name of Chyvyage, three florynes of golde..yerely. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xix. 173 One of the Articles enquirable in the Kings bench whether any persons take others to their Auowment and protection, and receiue of them rentes (or other giftes) yearely in the name of Chyuage (or rather Cheifage) bycause they seeme to take vpon them to be their Chiefes, heades, or leaders. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. O1v/2 Chevage..signifieth..a summe of money paid by villeins to their Lords, in acknowledgment of their slauerie. 1626 R. Harris Hezekiah's Recov. 20 Tenants must pay their rent, a cheefage..must they not? 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 140 a. 1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes vi. 47 Foldage,..Chevage,..Chimmage, I doubt not all these are as due to those can claim then by law, as mony lent [etc.] 1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Chevage, Chivage, Chiefage. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Jews, while allow'd to live in England, paid Chevage, or Poll-Money; viz. three Pence per Head, paid at Easter. 1880 Rogers in Contemp. Rev. XXXVII. 675 An annual tax, known as chivage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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