单词 | feuage |
释义 | † feuagen. Obsolete. rare. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ 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? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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