escuagen.
/ˈɛskjuːɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈɛskjuɪdʒ/ Feudal Law. Obsolete exc. Historical.† 1.
a. The chief form of feudal tenure (literally shield-service), personal service in the field for a period of forty days in each year. Obsolete.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure by service
socagea1325
escuagea1513
free or common (also free and common) socage1596
sokemanry1603
drengage1672
suithold1774
adscription1822
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xxii. sig. r.vv Many helde their landes..with seruice de chiualere and some by escuage.
1592 W. Wyrley True Vse Armorie 19 Euery tenant that held lands by a knights fee was tied to do his Lord escuage or shield seruice.
1695 W. Temple Introd. Hist. Eng. (1699) 171 Those Authors..pretend this Duty of Escuage..to have come over in this Reign.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. v. 74 This kind of tenure was called scutagium in Latin..or servitium scuti..in our Norman French escuage.
b. transferred.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 454 Our Grand-sires..euen in Age Could render duly Venus Escuage.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Venus-escuage, wanton fleshlinesse.
2. A money payment in lieu of military service; = scutage n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > payment in lieu of service > in lieu of military service > of knight
king geld1325
scuagec1450
scutagec1460
escuage1577
suitage1610
shield-money1877
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 587/1 The king demaunded Escuage of them that refused to go with him into Poitou.
1641 W. Hakewill Libertie of Subj. 17 Every man that by his tenure is bound to serve the King in his warres, and faileth, is to pay..a fine by the name of Escuage.
1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 95 When escuage is assessed throughout the land..the said Sir Philip shall pay, etc.
1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer ii. 23 The Baron appearing in the Host had Escuage on his own Tenants that made Default.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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