pickage, piccage
(ˈpɪkɪdʒ)
Forms: 4 pyk-, 5 pyck-, 7–8 pic-, 7– pick-, piccage.
[f. pick v.1 + -age. In AF. picage (Calais 1376), med.(Anglo-)L. picāgium (Du Cange), f. F. piquer: cf. pick v.1]
A toll paid for breaking the ground in setting up booths, stalls, tents, etc. at fairs.
| 1364 in Cal. Letters City Lond. (1885) 105 [They are and ought to be quit of] pykage. [1376 Rolls of Parlt. II. 359/1 (Reply to Burgesses of Calais) Lastallage..et auxint le picage en la Marche.] c 1440 Jacob's Well 29 To paye toll, pyckage, murage, or grondage. 1610 W. Folkingham Art of Survey iii. iv. 70 Immunities and Exemptions from..Pontage, Picage, Murage. 1627 F. Little Mon. Chr. Munif. (1871) 31 The pickage, stallage and tolls usually paid by buyers and sellers to the lord of the fair. 1778 Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Hitchin, Paying piccage and stallage to the lordship of the manor. 1864 Leeds Mercury 30 May, On Saturday, the pickage and stallage of the Wigan market were let by tender for twelve months, for the sum of {pstlg}560. 1885 Law Rep. 14 Q. Bench Div. 246 All tolls, dues, piccage, stallage, and other profits..to such market..belonging. |