| 单词 | murage duty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmurage duty 1. A toll or tax levied for the building or repairing of town walls (later more fully murage duty); the right granted to a town for the levying of such a toll.In quot. a1525: the fund into which such taxes were paid. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > dues or tolls for upkeep or maintenance > [noun] bridge-boteOE bridge silverc1254 parkbotea1315 fosse-silver?a1325 pontagea1325 murage1424 pavagec1450 bridge money1482 fox-hen1528 jail money1600 water-corn1600 beaconage1607 castle-bote1628 burgh-bote1647 barbicanage1691 highway rate1697 fossage1757 mint duties1782 society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right of taking toll or taxes > specific thirl-multure1423 multure meal1547 multure1565–6 murage1636 ferrya1638 1424 Bridgewater Borough Munim. 1427 (MED) Morage. c1432 Bridgewater Borough Munim. 1444 (MED) Recevyd for Plancage & Morage, x d. 1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 185/2 Ony manner Graunte of murage, made by you to eny Maier and Commynaltee. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 29 To paye toll, pyckage, murage, or grondage. c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. vij/2 We haue grauntyd for vs and for our eyers to our citezens yt they..be quyt for euer of pauage pontage and murage by al our reame. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 59 Þat Mold Lichefeld pay to þe murage of this cite aftur þe lond þat she holdithe, & no oþer wyse. 1636 W. Prynne Remonstr. against Shipmoney 8 Kings of England cannot by their Prerogative..grant Murage, or any other such Tallage to any by Patent. a1676 M. Hale Narr. Customes iii, in S. A. Moore Hist. Foreshore (1888) 337 These two sorts of taxes. (1) Murage: for the wallinge in of a port so that it may bee safe against invasion of forren enemyes [etc.]. (2) Kaiage or wharfage. 1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland II. Gloss. 612 Murage, a toll taken for a cart or horse laden going through a walled city or town, for repairing the walls thereof. 1810 D. Lysons & S. Lysons Magna Brit. II. ii. 581 Another ancient office is that of the murengers [of Chester], whose duty it is to receive the murage duties, and superintend their expenditure in the repair of the walls. 1851 Orig. Paroch. Scotl. I. 467 In the same year..the same King granted to his burgesses of Rokesburgh liberty to raise a yearly murage from saleable commodities brought into the town in order to enclose it for the greater security of the same and the parts adjacent. 1907 Amer. Hist. Rev. 12 735 In the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. the clergy of England claimed to be free from murage and other tolls. 1987 I. Scouloudi Huguenots in Brit. 67 The strangers..were to be liable for all [Canterbury] city taxes and duties, particularly those relating to the defence of the city: that is murage and watch. < as lemmas |
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