murage
(ˈmjʊərɪdʒ)
Now Hist.
[a. OF. murage, in med.L. mūrāgium, f. F. mur wall: see mure n. and -age.]
1. A toll or tax levied for the building or repairing of the walls of a town; also, in mod. use, murage duty. Also the right granted to a town for the levying of such a toll.
| [1275 Stat. Westm. 3 Edw. I, c. 31 Des Citeins e des Burgeys a ki le Rey ou son piere ad grante Murage, por lor vile enclore.] 1423 Cov. Leet Bk. (E.E.T.S.) 59 Þat Mold Lichefeld pay to þe murage of this cite aftur þe lond þat she holdithe, & no oþer wyse. c 1440 Jacob's Well iv. 29 To paye toll, pyckage, murage, or grondage. 1502 Arnolde's Chron. (1811) 22 We haue grauntyd for vs and for our eyers to our citezens y{supt} they..be quyt for euer of pauage pontage and murage by al our reame. 1636 Prynne Remonstr. agst. Shipmoney 8 Kings of England cannot by their Prerogative..grant Murage, or any other such Tallage to any by Patent. a 1676 Hale Narr. Customes iii. in S. A. Moore 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. 1794 W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumbld. 1. Gloss., Murage, a toll taken for a cart or horse laden going through a walled city or town for repairing the walls thereof. 1810 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. Scot. 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. |
† 2. The building of walls; also a system of defensive walls (cf. OF. murage a wall). Obs. rare.
| 1553 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 414 Massons workinge..uppon the workes of muradge and pavadge. 1600 Holland Livy xxxiv. xxxviii. 875 This Sparta in times past stood without murage. And the tyrants of late daies had built walles against the open flattes and plaine fields. |