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单词 feuage
释义

feuagen.

Forms: 1500s–1800s fowage, 1600s feuage, 1700s fuage.
Etymology: < Old French feuage, fouage, < feu fire.
Obsolete. rare.
(See quots.)
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > hearth or chimney tax
focage1499
feuage1523
smoke-pence1584
smoke-penny1631
hearth money1662
smoke-money1662
chimney-money1664
smoke-silver1664
hearth tax1689
fumage1755
chimney-tax1855
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. V. ccxli. 351/2 This fowage..shulde have been well worthe every yere a xii thousand from euery fyer to have payed yerely a franke.
?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Diiv He leueyed a fowage in Guyan agaynst the myndes of the lordes.
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 84 Wanting which a fowage was desierd To pay the soldiers for this iourney hierd.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 586/1 The Prince of Wales had..propounded a demaund for fowage, or of money to bee leuied by the chimney.
1618 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 214 The Prince of Wales..imposing a new taxation upon the Gascoignes, of Feuage or Chymney mony..discontented the people.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Fuage or Focage, Hearth-money, an Imposition of Twelve-pence for every Fire-hearth.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. vii. 323 As early as the conquest mention is made in domesday book of fumage or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings; which were paid by custom to the king for every chimney in the house.
1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde 1st Pt. ii. vi What were the fowage and the subsidies When bread was but four mites that's now a groat?
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